Overcoming One Day At A Time

The bible tells us in Colossians 3:2 - "Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. 3For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory." I know some days I can feel that super natural strength and other days I feel like I'm using all my strength trying to run my race and people pass me walking. That is not a fun feeling. Its not fun to work hard,push through all of your obstacles, over come them, and turn around still waiting for your breakthrough. We put God first in everything we do, finances, we make church a priority, we volunteer for several things every week,w e give time, love, to the people in our world.  so where is our breakthrough?  This is such a hard question. Its not that I don't deserve it. Its not that I did something wrong, but sometimes someone elses plans are transforming faster than mine. It is soooo hard not t...

Thinking of how my husband has grown over the years. None of us are perfect in any area of life but I am so proud of the man he has become. As father's day comes around in a week I'm thinking of the past decade of our life together, through all the holidays we've missed together because of him working I try to make other days special because its just a day on a calendar. We didn't know how much we would have come against us in our marriage, health, finances, family etc. Together we have made it through a lot of things that make marriages fall apart and I credit our strength to God because it is only through our faith that we can make it through it all. I just have to shout out praise to my hubby, he works day and night at one of the busiest stations and no matter how much back pain hes in, or what he has going on he puts God first, meaning that at work he helps his patients and coworkers with love, humor,  and empathy. He had record number of calls day and night in r...

Yesterday we had our provision of the house offering at church. Its a yearly miracle offering where we sow knowing what we sow into building Gods house. Every year we have seen return from this in some way, sometimes more than 10X amount we have given. As we prayed for this years amount I felt God give us this amount that was way out of our "budget". But I know that the reward for obediance is far greater than the reward of holding money in our hand. When you bless others, bless the church, you bless the generations to come. Not only our church but those in the community that our church partners with, such as this year the church is promising to sow a large amount into the city for their new homeless shelter. This is very much overdue for this area.  . As the challenges surround us daily and make it hard to breathe some days, we look to heaven and know that He has been with us all along and Hes here now. This year we sacrificed the most out of all the years knowing that th...

Sometimes I forget in the chaos of life to stop and just say thank you God for this day. I too quickly get overwhelmed by life's circumstances and feel defeated and discouraged. Its in those moments its important  to stop and take a few moments to put my feelings in check. When we listen to our feelings we begin making decisions based on things that are not necessarily true. Our feelings are finicky, one moment we can be mad, sad, happy all within relatively same time. Its in the moments that we want to fall apart the most that is most important to stand firm on what we know to be truth. We can feel that God doesn't hear us or see us because life isn't going our way but its not the truth. We can feel forgotten but that's not true either. We know he sees every hair on our head. One thing I constantly have to remind myself is to not set my standards of myself to anyone elses. Gods opinion is the one that matters. We can try to find our security in what others say about u...

I'm sitting here again at the infusion center contemplating God's work in and through us. There were many words birthed in my spirit this weekend but I couldn't pin point one thing that I wanted to talk about with God. Sometimes, I feel like saying,  Hello God... You know what I'm thinking so can we get through these valleys of pain and reach the mountain top already? I'm done here. Lord Ive been through so much but you have been the strength in my spirit to carry me through all of it, you have never left me. God wants us to profess what it is we are believing God to do.  God is So for us He desires us to cling to His words by faith. If we are not being challenged, then what do you need faith for? Faith is the hope of things unseen, HOPE that there is something good that's going to come out of situations that seem impossible, crazy, or downright hell. Some of my friends are going through life changing seasons. We are starting yet another tough season but beli...