A CONVERSATION WITH GOD

                                A CONVERSATION WITH GOD

Me: God, can I ask You a question?
God: Sure 
Me: Promise You won't get mad ... ... ... ...
God: I promise
Me: Why did You let so much stuff happen to me today?
God: What do u mean?
Me: Well, I woke up late
God: Yes
Me: My car took forever to start
God: Okay
Me: at lunch they made my sandwich wrong & I had to wait
God: Hmmm
Me: On the way home, my phone went DEAD, just as I picked up a call
God: All right
Me: And on top of it all off, when I got home ~I just want to soak my feet in my new foot massager & relax. BUT it wouldn't work!!! Nothing went right today! Why did You do that?

God: Let me see, the death angel was at your bed this morning & I had to send one
of My Angels to battle him for your life. I let you sleep through that

Me (humbled): OH

GOD: I didn't let your car start because there was a drunk driver on your route that would have hit you if you were on the road.

Me: (ashamed)

God: The first person who made your sandwich today was sick & I didn't want you to catch what they have, I knew you couldn't afford to miss work.

Me (embarrassed):Okay

God: Your phone went dead bcuz the person that was calling was going to give false witness about what you said on that call, I didn't even let you talk to them so you would be covered.

Me (softly): I see God

God: Oh and that foot massager, it had a shortage that was going to throw out all of the power in your house tonight. I didn't think you wanted to be in the dark.

Me: I'm Sorry God

God: Don't be sorry, just learn to Trust Me.... in All things , the Good & the bad.

Me: I will trust You.

God: And don't doubt that My plan for your day is Always Better than your plan.

Me: I won't God. And let me just tell you God, Thank You for Everything today.

God: You're welcome child. It was just another day being your God and I Love looking after My Children...

Have A Message And Be One

"Preach the word."

2 Timothy 4:2

"We are not saved to be "channels only," but to be sons and daughters of God.  We are not turned into spiritual mediums, but into spiritual messengers; the message must be part of ourselves.  The Son of God was His own message, His words were spirit and life; and as His disciples our lives must be the sacrament of our message.  The natural heart will do any amount of serving, but it takes the heart broken by conviction of sin, and baptized by the Holy Ghost, and crumpled into the purpose of God before the life becomes the sacrament of its message.

There is a difference between giving a testimony and preaching.  A preacher is one who has realized the call of God and is determined to use his every power to proclaim God's truth.  God takes us out of our own ideas for our lives and we are "batter'd to shape and use." as the disciples were after Pentecost.  Pentecost did not teach the disciples anything; it made them the incarnation of what they preached, "Ye shall be witnesses unto Me."

Let God have perfect liverty when you speak.  Before God's message can liberate other souls, the liberation must be real in you.  Gather your material, and set it alight when you speak."

-Oswald Chambers-

Just thought I'd share this.

~Beautifully Created 4 Christ~

Just A Mom

A mom of some really good friends of mine sent me an e-mail and I wanted to share it. This is her true story! Even though I'm not a mom yet, this has really encouraged me and I really hope it encourages you also. :)

 "I was in town one day with my kiddo's at the local library.  The library was needing someone to fill in and help out for a while.  As we were walking in this well dressed, aged woman,with a poodle in her lap, spoke up sharply.  "Well, here is someone who doesn't have a real job and has time to volunteer.  Your just a stay at home Mom."  Just a Mom- as I gasped for air!  Definition: A stay at home, a bon bon eating, soap opera watching, sleep'in late, got it made in the shade- Mom.  Oh, wait - that was my Mom. Confession: I do like to sleep in.  Justification: I hit the floor running and don't stop till bed.  As for the rest of this worldly definition, I don't think so!  That Mom, that gave us a bad wrap need's to be spanked with her spatula.   

    Hunny and I met at church in the fall of 1992, on a Sunday morning.  He was new, I was polite, but not too nice- he could'a be a bank robber or something. He came to church several times and wanted to know where I lived.  I kept putting him off. That should of been my clue he wasn't just gonna go away after few weeks.  I was a church bus kid. One evening he followed the church bus home. "Now I know where you live," he said. My step - father was all bark and stopped around like Hector, the big bull dog on looney toons.  We lived down in the geto part of Waco.  I didn't want anyone to know were we lived.  Nothing seemed to scare him away. One month later we became an item.  We were only allowed to hang out at church of course or sit on the sofa with the embarrassing family.  I was all of 14, did I mention that.  I had just started the 9th grade.  We courted/dated for four years.  They dragged on like molasses without an end.  Hunny proposed when I was 17 at a park near my grandmothers home.  The Lord has a plan.

     The Lord told me he was the one.  I knew without a shadow of doubt that he was my soul mate.  We talked about everything me and the Lord.  My parents were not easy to confide in nor were they approving.  They are not Christians, then or now.  Their plans for me was not mine.  I had no vision for higher education.  I had worked full time the last two years of school and graduated in the top 20 of my class-  I am so not bragging.  I worked hard for every A or B I got.  It sure didn't come naturally. The thought of college was depressing.  More than that, I had no peace.  The Lord has a plan.

    After graduation, one month later, we married. My parents schemed and plotted up to the day to foil the marriage. One month after the life changing day we moved to big Donie, TX. I was in such culture shock, Yikes.  About the same time as the move, I began throwing up my toe nails.  I was indeed gonna have a baby.  I was quite sick, all day, every day, every meal, -for the whole nine months.  No worries about work or school now.   I have never had a gift with children.   Many people are given a talent, blessing, or gift to work with children.  I never had the patience, desire, or talent.  I thought surely it won't be so bad- at least they'll be mine.  The Lord worked upon my heart and mind during those 9 sickly months.  I wanted so much more spiritually for my children than what I grew up with.  The Lord had a plan. 

     A while after Catie Bug was born, I felt the need to go back to work.  I had this pressure from church friends and others to go back to work.  I battled with it.  When at home I felt guilty for not working.  When at work I felt guilt for not being at home.  I couldn't figure out my place.  Society is convinced that baby sitters, crazy work hours, feeling tired, no time off, short tempers is the way to go.  The worked, hard, and was good at what I did.  I moved up in pay and reputation.  My kids were with this sitter and that one all because I held my allegiance higher "work" than family.  The Lord dealt with me.  It wasn't pretty.  I went through an angry stage.  I didn't want to give up all that I had worked for.  Money, that was my money, I earned. The Lord had a plan.

    Someone gave me that Pearl book. You know who you are.  The book that  stirred it all up!  I was as angry as anyone else who's read that book and rejected it.  I finished reading it though.  And the Lord spoke to me, softly, and gently.  My heart quivers as I type and my eyes water even now.  He told me, "He Loves me- and his grace is sufficient for me.  And it's OK to be just a Mom."  It wasn't my job to have the job.  It is my job to raise the babies he entrusted me with.  Such peace over flowed my heart and soul.  NO more did I buy the lie.  I didn't have to work outside the home to prove anything.  What a disservice our Mothers did for us. The Lord had a plan.

    It wasn't long and the Lord dealt with me about homeschooling.  It was a tremendous leap of faith.  Hunny was out of work, had been for a year or so.  I turned in my notice and told my boss, who was going to gift her business to me, that come end of May- I was finished.  Her words were, "You'll be back."  And nope, she wasn't to supportive.  We took the next few months to unschool and unwork to develop a new routine.  I look back now and love those "Donie Day's" as we call them.  The bible time, tea parties, schooling out side in lawn chairs, Sis stretched out in the hay reading a book, late night with fiddler on the roof, are all treasured memories.  The Lord had a plan.

    Mom's with little ones.  It will not always be so.  The days are long exhausting and few of appreciation.  Hang in there.  Try not to be stressed over perfection.  Share with the Lord- he wants to hear of you day.  Family must be a priority.  The Lord entrusted us Mom's with such a valuable treasure.  We are to teach and raise these babies up to Love Him- with all their heart, mind and soul.  To be a Mom should not be thought of as an inferior job but rather of the greatest, humblest, of God given responsibilities.  The Lord brought all these memories flooding my mind with sewing this evening.  I am not proud of all of them but would be disobedient if I didn't share.  I share with you and your daughter- to not doubt the Lord.  The Lord doesn't follow the social trends and neither should we.  Home truly is were our treasure is.  The Lord has a plan."

~Beautifully Created 4 Christ~

5 Things God's Children Should Never Worry About

If you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior, and asked Him to come into your heart, there are 5 things you should never worry about.

5 Things God's Children Should Never Worry About

    1. Being Forsaken

Hebrews 13:5b says, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee..." God is in control, always there, always constant, and never wavering. He'll be standing ready when you fall and help you back up again. There's something amazingly special about this verse. It's extremely deep promise to all believers. "I (Jesus) will NEVER leave thee, nor forsake (meaning, leave behind) thee." As believers, we should find peace in this promise.

2. Feeling Useless

1 Corinthians 12:12-31 says, "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body.

And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

 That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular. And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way." 

We are all apart of the body of Christ. We are not useless. God has a special plan for each and every believer. As we prayerfully seek God's will in our lives He will reveal His plan in His timing not ours. His timing and plans are perfect, without flaw, and way better than any plan than we have for our lives. 

3. The Future

Jeremiah 29:11 says, "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." And John 14:1-3, "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.  In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." Like I said before, God has a plan. When life seems to be going down hill or we feel like God forgot about the plan He had for us, we have to remember that we only see a tiny bit of the picture, but God knows everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen. He see's the big picture. He holds the world in His hands, He's numbered the stars and knows them by name. He has a future for you. 

4. Bothering God With Prayer

1 Peter 5:7 says, " Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you", and 1 Thessalonians 5:17, "Pray without ceasing." God wants us to rely on Him with everything, no matter how small. Cast ALL your care upon Him, and NEVER stop praying. He can handle any problem, every worry, every care. Give it to God.

And last but not least...

5. Felling Unforgiven

1John 1:9 says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." There's no sin to big, no sin to awful, and no sin to selfish. There's only one sin that sends you to hell, and that is the unbelief in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Bring it to the cross, lay it at the feet of Jesus, and you'll be forgiven. He is faithful even we are not, He has mercy even when we don't deserve it, He is forgiving even when we keep failing Him. His love for us endures FOREVER. Never ending love for a sinner like me. 

I am NEVER forsaken. I am Never useless. HE holds my future. He's NEVER bothered with my prayers. And, I AM FORGIVEN.

Just Breathe

God Is In Control....So, just Breathe! :)

Psalms 46:10a, "Be still, and know that I am God:"

Step Back And Give It To God

There are times in people's lives, (if your like me it's a lot), when you loaded down with service for God and put a lot on your mental plate. When you get so caught up in service that you forget who your serving. Usually, if that happens to me, I start feeling like I'm sinking to the bottom of the ocean and the weight of the water is putting so much pressure on me I begin to crumble, and suffocate.
God has been showing me a lot lately that I can't go through life doing stuff on my own. It just doesn't work. I tent to get stressed over stuff really easily, and I just have to step back go somewhere quiet and talk to God, give it to Him, and breathe. God is in control no matter what, and if I can trust Him with my life, I can trust Him with life's little problems too. And when we start getting worried about a service and all the details of what goes on with it and forget the one we're really doing it for, then what does it matter? It doesn't mean anything. If it's not for God's glory, then it's for nothing and worth nothing. Before we have a chance to get stressed over something we need to step back have a serious talking with God and make sure our hearts are in the right place, and doing this to glorify God and not ourselves or anyone else. A lesson I'm still learning is stepping back and giving my plans over to God and making sure they're in His will, and not just mine, and then giving the stress that comes with it to Him too. so, step back and give it to God. :)

~Beautifully Created 4 Christ~

~1 Peter 4:16~

Memory Verse

The memory verse for this week is Proverbs 3:3  "Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:"

Have a blessed week!

~Beautifully Created 5 Christ~

~1 Peter 1:4~