As I read what other's write days after we write about things, I am reminded how everything with God is circular. He circles us with His word, with His answers, and as we praise Him and our praises go up to him, His glory comes back down to us in return...as in a circular motion. Again, I see His hand moving and stirring among His people as I read similar, almost word for word at times, stories like the ones we have shared on our blog.
There is one topic in particular that I read on another blog that was posted today and we were circled with it yesterday and blogged on it. God is bringing unity amongst His people. And I'm not talking about people that know each other, or even live in the same city or state. These are complete strangers. But there is a common ground that God is speaking to us about.
He never ceases to amaze me. He never stops being the most amazing and unpredictable Father. He opens up His huge arms and pulls His children in tight and wraps us with His love and His word and in that moment I see another glimpse of who He is, another piece to the puzzle that He is allowing me to put together. And I beg for more of it, for more of His awesomeness and amazingness and splendor and all that He has to offer to me as His child.
Thank you Father.
I love you Father.
In love with the Father
Jennifer
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Wow...I just got through reading some other womens' blogs, and I realized something. I have no room to complain. Sure I may struggle with finances, being a diabetic, my weight, having a preteen in the house and the hormones that are coming along with that, having to work night shift and being tired all of the time, parents getting old and sickly, and everyday situations that may arise BUT I am so blessed in so many ways.
I have a wonderful and faithful husband whom I absolutely adore. My children are healthy. I have a roof over my head and food on my table everyday of my life. God answers my prayers for provision and protection over my children every single day.
I have so much that I overlook when the small struggles are thrown my way, but there are women out there that have lost a child, have children with diseases and handicaps that cause them to have to provide total care, they deal with diseases themselves that do not allow them to dress themselves and some that are completely homebound.
And I sit and sulk whenever I don't get enough sleep from being up all night working. Praise God I even have a job because there are also those out there who struggle with the loss of a job and income too.
I think we get so consumed with our own struggles sometimes, whether they are big or small, that we don't see the struggles of others around us.
Stop for a minute and look at others in the grocery store, in church, in the news, at the mall...we never know what others are going through or have been through. Sometimes their lives may look so put together but we don't know what they have had to walk out in their lives.
Today I got a dose of this. I read blogs of women that have struggles that I myself cannot imagine going through.
I pray that God continues to help take my focus off of me and let me see the world through His eyes, catching every hurt and pain that others may have and allow my heart to be like His so that instead of caring so much about what I deal with, I begin to care that much about what others are dealing with. I want to see people in the mall and know their burdens so that I may lift them up in prayer and see the hand of God reaching down and touching them at that moment.
Open my eyes and heart to be like you God...to think like you, to hear like you, to see like you and to hurt like you do for these women mentioned above. Even though they go through some very difficult times, they still find hope and strength in you and today that blessed me to see and read about.
Thank you God for taking me to these sites and helping me realize myself that my life is not so bad and nothing is too impossible for you to help us get through.
Let's get back to caring for others...truly caring for others.
With His eyes today
Jennifer
I have a wonderful and faithful husband whom I absolutely adore. My children are healthy. I have a roof over my head and food on my table everyday of my life. God answers my prayers for provision and protection over my children every single day.
I have so much that I overlook when the small struggles are thrown my way, but there are women out there that have lost a child, have children with diseases and handicaps that cause them to have to provide total care, they deal with diseases themselves that do not allow them to dress themselves and some that are completely homebound.
And I sit and sulk whenever I don't get enough sleep from being up all night working. Praise God I even have a job because there are also those out there who struggle with the loss of a job and income too.
I think we get so consumed with our own struggles sometimes, whether they are big or small, that we don't see the struggles of others around us.
Stop for a minute and look at others in the grocery store, in church, in the news, at the mall...we never know what others are going through or have been through. Sometimes their lives may look so put together but we don't know what they have had to walk out in their lives.
Today I got a dose of this. I read blogs of women that have struggles that I myself cannot imagine going through.
I pray that God continues to help take my focus off of me and let me see the world through His eyes, catching every hurt and pain that others may have and allow my heart to be like His so that instead of caring so much about what I deal with, I begin to care that much about what others are dealing with. I want to see people in the mall and know their burdens so that I may lift them up in prayer and see the hand of God reaching down and touching them at that moment.
Open my eyes and heart to be like you God...to think like you, to hear like you, to see like you and to hurt like you do for these women mentioned above. Even though they go through some very difficult times, they still find hope and strength in you and today that blessed me to see and read about.
Thank you God for taking me to these sites and helping me realize myself that my life is not so bad and nothing is too impossible for you to help us get through.
Let's get back to caring for others...truly caring for others.
With His eyes today
Jennifer
Friday, February 5, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
"My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline and do not resent his rebuke, because the LORD disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in."
Proverbs 3:11-12
Sometimes we need to be disciplined by the Father. Not all discipline is a negative thing.
Our God loves us, but He will also discipline us when we need it just as our earthly father does. Sometimes we need to be bent over the knee and spanked and sometimes we just need a pat on the hand or a good talking to. But whatever it is, God does it with love and because He loves us is why it is done.
Read through the bible and let the words penetrate you and change you.
If you don't have a reading plan, try reading the Proverbs each day. There are 31 chapters in Proverbs (and usually 31 days in a month). Get in the habit of reading a chapter a day. It's a good habit to start.
Ask God to correct you and discipline you so that.....Yes...You become more like HIM.
Worship the Father today by reading His story, the Bible.
Enjoy your day.
Jennifer
Proverbs 3:11-12
Sometimes we need to be disciplined by the Father. Not all discipline is a negative thing.
Our God loves us, but He will also discipline us when we need it just as our earthly father does. Sometimes we need to be bent over the knee and spanked and sometimes we just need a pat on the hand or a good talking to. But whatever it is, God does it with love and because He loves us is why it is done.
Read through the bible and let the words penetrate you and change you.
If you don't have a reading plan, try reading the Proverbs each day. There are 31 chapters in Proverbs (and usually 31 days in a month). Get in the habit of reading a chapter a day. It's a good habit to start.
Ask God to correct you and discipline you so that.....Yes...You become more like HIM.
Worship the Father today by reading His story, the Bible.
Enjoy your day.
Jennifer
Monday, February 1, 2010
As I sit in my office with kids in the background playing in the house I decide to play one of my favorite songs by Kari Jobe, "The More I Seek You". I can get so lost in God's presence during this song that at times I feel it in my throat. The words to this song could not express more how I feel right now in my walk. I have fallen so completely inlove with God that I can't think sometimes. I get in my quiet place (the office), put on some praise music, and just get lost in His presence. I throw my head back, I cry out to Him for more and the more I cry the more God shows up. The more that I truly seek Him the more of Him I find and then I want to seek Him more and more. Sometimes I spend hours in here sitting in His presence, letting Him take me wherever He wants me to go...in the bible, listening to His voice, letting me cry, letting me unwind from the day, and simply ministering to my soul deep down to the marrow of my bones. God is so alive and so real and wants us to come and seek Him. He wants us to crawl up in His lap, lay our head on His chest, hear his heartbeat, and get lost in His presence. He does something to me when I am here. He fills me up to overflowing, He ignites a fire that was burnt out, He wipes away tears before they even fall sometimes, He smiles and listens and speaks.
Psalm 51:10 says to "create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me."
God will create this in you, He will embrace you in His presence and the Holy Spirit will not leave your side if you seek Him..."Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;" (Psalm 40:16).
Listen to this song on our blog (it's the 3rd one I think)
The words to this song are:
The more I seek you
The more I find you.
The more I find you
The more I love you.
I wanna sit at your feet
Drink from the cup in your hand
Lay back against you and breathe
Hear your heart beat.
This love is so deep
Its more than I can stand
I melt in your peace
It's overwhelming.
These words become my words to the Father when I sing this. His love is so deep and sometimes I can barely stand in His presence. I do melt and become overwhelmed with God's presence sometimes. BUT I love Him so much that I want more of Him and I seek Him even more because of this.
I have found that love that I have searched for years for in my walk with God. He is here when I need Him and want Him. He is here the second I whisper His name. He is waiting on His child to call out to Him and when we do, our Heavenly Father pours out His love in so many ways to us.
The more I seek Him....the more I do find Him.
Melt in His peace...
Jennifer
Psalm 51:10 says to "create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me."
God will create this in you, He will embrace you in His presence and the Holy Spirit will not leave your side if you seek Him..."Let all those who seek You rejoice and be glad in You;" (Psalm 40:16).
Listen to this song on our blog (it's the 3rd one I think)
The words to this song are:
The more I seek you
The more I find you.
The more I find you
The more I love you.
I wanna sit at your feet
Drink from the cup in your hand
Lay back against you and breathe
Hear your heart beat.
This love is so deep
Its more than I can stand
I melt in your peace
It's overwhelming.
These words become my words to the Father when I sing this. His love is so deep and sometimes I can barely stand in His presence. I do melt and become overwhelmed with God's presence sometimes. BUT I love Him so much that I want more of Him and I seek Him even more because of this.
I have found that love that I have searched for years for in my walk with God. He is here when I need Him and want Him. He is here the second I whisper His name. He is waiting on His child to call out to Him and when we do, our Heavenly Father pours out His love in so many ways to us.
The more I seek Him....the more I do find Him.
Melt in His peace...
Jennifer
Today one of the Yahweh sisters, Robbie, was able to meet with one of the pastors of her church. When we are going to start another bible study we do a lot of praying about which one God wants us to do. There can be a lot of "stress" on which one is the "right" one. Then there is the financial part of the video series (if there is one) that goes along with the studies. It's not easy to choose all of the time.
Now granted there are times when we know immediately what God wants us to do and then there are other times when we have no idea. So, today we got together and spent some time in the bible book store looking at different studies. There are some that look good, some that look like "meat" and some that look like "milk", some that look encouraging, some that are Holy Spirit driven, and then some that we just want to do. So which one?
Sometimes I think you just know that you know, but you analyze so many things that you double guess yourself. (Who will like it? Will they be able to keep up with it? Will they be disappointed because it's not like the past ones? Are they ready for this type of study? Is it just what WE want?)
And then, God puts people in your life like the Pastor Judi, that brings direction and encouragement in your decisions, and you realize that if you are obedient with what direction that God is taking you then all of the "other stuff" will fall into place. I think we knew what study we were supposed to do in that bible book store today, but the details worried us a bit and brought about confusion, and we know that our God is not a God of confusion.
But we prayed for God to direct us and He did. He allowed someone with a lot of biblical knowledge and expertise in this area to help guide us, to push us on in the right direction that we were headed.
Sometimes we all need a little push from wiser instruments in the Body of Christ.
God will take care of the details...We just have to be obedient to the direction that He is leading us.
So, ladies, GET READY. I believe that God is going to do some great things through this next study. I am excited and I pray that you are ready to dig into God's word.
We will be posting the name and dates of the next study soon so check back in with us.
Jennifer
Now granted there are times when we know immediately what God wants us to do and then there are other times when we have no idea. So, today we got together and spent some time in the bible book store looking at different studies. There are some that look good, some that look like "meat" and some that look like "milk", some that look encouraging, some that are Holy Spirit driven, and then some that we just want to do. So which one?
Sometimes I think you just know that you know, but you analyze so many things that you double guess yourself. (Who will like it? Will they be able to keep up with it? Will they be disappointed because it's not like the past ones? Are they ready for this type of study? Is it just what WE want?)
And then, God puts people in your life like the Pastor Judi, that brings direction and encouragement in your decisions, and you realize that if you are obedient with what direction that God is taking you then all of the "other stuff" will fall into place. I think we knew what study we were supposed to do in that bible book store today, but the details worried us a bit and brought about confusion, and we know that our God is not a God of confusion.
But we prayed for God to direct us and He did. He allowed someone with a lot of biblical knowledge and expertise in this area to help guide us, to push us on in the right direction that we were headed.
Sometimes we all need a little push from wiser instruments in the Body of Christ.
God will take care of the details...We just have to be obedient to the direction that He is leading us.
So, ladies, GET READY. I believe that God is going to do some great things through this next study. I am excited and I pray that you are ready to dig into God's word.
We will be posting the name and dates of the next study soon so check back in with us.
Jennifer
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Pleasing God.....
Hebrews 11:5
By FAITH Enoch was taken from this life, so that he would not experience death; he could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.
Pleased God...how can I please God? How can you please God?
How close are you to God? Did you know that it is you that determines how intimate you are with God? Not God! You are as close to God as you choose to be. It is us!! Does that shock some of you? It does me! Enoch was not satisfied just settling for acknowledgement of God's existence. He had a personal dynamic relationship with God that transformed his life! He was seeking God and found him. Enoch enjoyed such a close intimate relationship with God that he did not see DEATH! Wow. Basically the Lord said to Enoch that "I can't take you any further in the flesh. To increase my intimacy with you, I have to bring you to my side." So he whisked Enoch away to Glory! This is a true testimony to what it means to truly walk in faith. Intimacy with the Father is our choice. So...how in touch are you with the Father? Remember God delights in your presence! DELIGHTS! Can you image that?
The Lord enjoyed Enoch so much that he brought him home with him so he could be with him all the time. Do not forget that Enoch was completely human, but chose to have the closet possible relationship with God that any human could enjoy! I challenge myself and you this week, let's step it up and increase our intimacy with the Father. He loves you and wants to spend time with you. Intimacy pleases God. Read his word back to him and talk with him. Trust him even if you're being pruned this week. Remember if you are in a hot spot, God has not taken his eyes off of you. Your name is engraved in the palm of his hands.
Enoch's life was a description of a faithful man's life. Enoch walked with God. I want that. I want to walk with God. It is up to us. Let us change our testimony of what it means to truly walk with God in faith. Seek and you shall find. I pray for anyone reading this today ...
Father please show us how to increase our intimacy with you. Help us to step it up and have the closest relationship with you humanly possible. Let us feel your amazing presence as we spend time with you. We love you Lord and praise your precious name. Amen.
Blessings,
Robbie
By FAITH Enoch was taken from this life, so that he would not experience death; he could not be found, because God had taken him away. For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.
Pleased God...how can I please God? How can you please God?
How close are you to God? Did you know that it is you that determines how intimate you are with God? Not God! You are as close to God as you choose to be. It is us!! Does that shock some of you? It does me! Enoch was not satisfied just settling for acknowledgement of God's existence. He had a personal dynamic relationship with God that transformed his life! He was seeking God and found him. Enoch enjoyed such a close intimate relationship with God that he did not see DEATH! Wow. Basically the Lord said to Enoch that "I can't take you any further in the flesh. To increase my intimacy with you, I have to bring you to my side." So he whisked Enoch away to Glory! This is a true testimony to what it means to truly walk in faith. Intimacy with the Father is our choice. So...how in touch are you with the Father? Remember God delights in your presence! DELIGHTS! Can you image that?
The Lord enjoyed Enoch so much that he brought him home with him so he could be with him all the time. Do not forget that Enoch was completely human, but chose to have the closet possible relationship with God that any human could enjoy! I challenge myself and you this week, let's step it up and increase our intimacy with the Father. He loves you and wants to spend time with you. Intimacy pleases God. Read his word back to him and talk with him. Trust him even if you're being pruned this week. Remember if you are in a hot spot, God has not taken his eyes off of you. Your name is engraved in the palm of his hands.
Enoch's life was a description of a faithful man's life. Enoch walked with God. I want that. I want to walk with God. It is up to us. Let us change our testimony of what it means to truly walk with God in faith. Seek and you shall find. I pray for anyone reading this today ...
Father please show us how to increase our intimacy with you. Help us to step it up and have the closest relationship with you humanly possible. Let us feel your amazing presence as we spend time with you. We love you Lord and praise your precious name. Amen.
Blessings,
Robbie
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