I love listening to the song "God's got it" by J Moss https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oN2hLQ0WfPA
I ain't gonna worry about things I can't control all I'll do is pray about it. Just think about it, if there is nothing I can do about it how will worrying help? Instead it will just increase my stress level, take away my joy and productivity in other areas.
Granted it's all easier said than done, my prayer is God to help me let go and let him take control.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oN2hLQ0WfPA
It's hard to just let go but with God giving us strength, praying continually to him to help us through and to teach us how to not worry, we can make it.
That's my prayer.
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Worship
I was reading Our daily bread devotion www.odb.org/app about worship and the must important thing I learnt is that "Our attitude in worship is far more important than the position of our worship"
Psalm 95:1-6
Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! (Psalm 95:1-6 ESV)
Our God is might & powerful yet full of mercy and grace for us. He made us and everything else on earth yet he gives us the choice to follow him or not. We sin and go against his will but if we repent, he forgives us and welcomes us back to his kingdom.
He deserves our praise and worship.
Psalm 95:1-6
Oh come, let us sing to the Lord; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation! Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods. In his hand are the depths of the earth; the heights of the mountains are his also. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! (Psalm 95:1-6 ESV)
Our God is might & powerful yet full of mercy and grace for us. He made us and everything else on earth yet he gives us the choice to follow him or not. We sin and go against his will but if we repent, he forgives us and welcomes us back to his kingdom.
He deserves our praise and worship.
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Verse Of The Day
Psalm 63:3-4
Because your steadfast love is better that life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.
I love to sing to my Lord and savior Jesus Christ as I do chores around the house, it makes me have this joyful, youthful feeling and I end up enjoying what I'm doing more as my spirit gets uplifted from the praises to My God.
Do you ever feel that way when you praise and worship God? Oh how wonderful it is to be a child of the most high God.
Because your steadfast love is better that life, my lips will praise you. So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.
I love to sing to my Lord and savior Jesus Christ as I do chores around the house, it makes me have this joyful, youthful feeling and I end up enjoying what I'm doing more as my spirit gets uplifted from the praises to My God.
Do you ever feel that way when you praise and worship God? Oh how wonderful it is to be a child of the most high God.
Saturday, August 9, 2014
Waiting Patiently on God
1 Samuel 13:8-10
He (Saul) waited for seven days, the time appointed by Samuel, But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, the people were scattering from him. So Saul said " Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings" and he offered the burnt offering. As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him.
Sometimes we get impatient and take matters into our own hands instead of waiting on the Lord.
When we pray for something and it seems like God is taking longer than we think he should or longer than we want, we start to help him answer the prayers by relying on other means or we go to our B plan for the avid planners.
This is not the way God wants us to act. ! Samuel 13:11 a Samuel said " what have you done?" ....in verse 13 Samuel tells him he had done foolishly.... the Lord would have established his kingdom over Israel forever but since he did not obey the Lord, his kingdom would not continue.
We deprive ourselves off of blessings when we don't wait on the Lord.
Psalm 27:14 Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
My Prayer today for you and me is that the Lord Almighty may give us strength & courage to wait patiently on him
He (Saul) waited for seven days, the time appointed by Samuel, But Samuel did not come to Gilgal, the people were scattering from him. So Saul said " Bring the burnt offering here to me, and the peace offerings" and he offered the burnt offering. As soon as he had finished offering the burnt offering, behold Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and greet him.
Sometimes we get impatient and take matters into our own hands instead of waiting on the Lord.
When we pray for something and it seems like God is taking longer than we think he should or longer than we want, we start to help him answer the prayers by relying on other means or we go to our B plan for the avid planners.
This is not the way God wants us to act. ! Samuel 13:11 a Samuel said " what have you done?" ....in verse 13 Samuel tells him he had done foolishly.... the Lord would have established his kingdom over Israel forever but since he did not obey the Lord, his kingdom would not continue.
We deprive ourselves off of blessings when we don't wait on the Lord.
Psalm 27:14 Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
My Prayer today for you and me is that the Lord Almighty may give us strength & courage to wait patiently on him
Thursday, July 17, 2014
God Loves us
Today I will just share this not so short video of Francis Chan talking about God's Love.
Just Stop and think - of God's Love, creation and more....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EgvZo9mF0Q
Just Stop and think - of God's Love, creation and more....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EgvZo9mF0Q
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
What Defines you? - We are not defined by the size of our Jeans
I read this devotion and copied it from http://proverbs31.org/devotions/devo/
you read it there. It's titled NOT DEFINED BY THE SIZE OF OUR JEANS
“Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:6-7 (NASB) The moon was a slice of white in the night sky. It looked like the rim of a coffee mug, the mug with a picture of a teddy bear saying “I love you beary, beary much” … the mug my brother gave me when I was 13 and hospitalized for anorexia. Here I was again, in a green hospital gown, only this time, I wasn’t hypothermic and 60 pounds. This time I was holding a baby doctors had said I’d never be able to have. He was 8 pounds, 2 ounces, his name was Aiden Grey and I couldn’t stop crying. Because he couldn’t stop hiccupping. “Is he okay?” I touched the nurse’s elbow as she straightened my sheets. She smiled. “Yes,” she said. “There’s nothing that can be done for hiccupping — it just has to take its course,” and I tucked Aiden close to my heart, because I couldn’t tuck him back into my womb. I have two sons now, and I’ve had two miscarriages too, and there’s nothing harder than watching your body fail your baby. But God — He never fails. He is always there. Even in the miscarriage. He was there when I was a pastor’s kid who began starving herself at age 9; when I was an 18-year-old hippie who ran away from home and traveled the world searching for faith. When I came home to a mother who was dying from brain cancer, who still sang Great is Thy Faithfulness from somewhere deep her in sleep. In the midst of our pain, He is there, hanging from a cross, only to rise again. When I was young I stopped eating to avoid feeling pain. Now, I’m learning to wait for the resurrection. I’m learning to trust God in the ache. This past spring, I looked out my office window, saw snow on the ground, and my 2-year-old jumping on our trampoline. Naked. His clothes strewn around him, and he was singing. I laughed even as I ran to cover him, but secretly, I was envious. I envied the freedom to sing naked, oblivious to the audience of a highway running perpendicular to our house. Perhaps this is a picture of what God’s Word invites us to do in 1 Peter 5:7, where it says cast “all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.” It’s not easy to truly cast our anxiety on Jesus in a world that tells us we are defined by the size of our jeans. It’s a lot easier to hide, than trust Jesus with our pain, or our questions about who we are and if we matter. And I think it’s somewhere in there, in that quiet place of being loved — in the mother’s embrace of her baby — that we find ourselves. The other night in a rare moment of quiet in my house, I felt as if I had stepped straight into love. Like it had been waiting there for me the whole time. I saw the real me: a passionate, scatter-brained 33-year-old woman who loves the world deeply and laughs loudly and needs alone time. Who gets paint on the kitchen table when she’s making art, who would rather write than do housework, who has tattoos, who cries when her sons refuse to listen to her. And suddenly I knew who I was. Right in the middle of that sacred moment surrounded by Legos and train tracks. I was loved. It’s who we all are, friends. We’re not defined by the size of our jeans. We’re not the sum of our Twitter followers or the square feet of our house. We are God’s daughters, tucked in His arms, where He aches over hiccups, where He longs to carry our worries, and where He would die for us. He did die for us. Yes, this, friends. We are loved. Dear God, help me know You love me. Help me feel Your caring arms around me today, even in the dark. Help me hear Your voice singing over me. In Jesus’ Name, Amen. TRUTH FOR TODAY: Psalm 46:10, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” (NIV) RELATED RESOURCES: Atlas Girl: Finding Home In The Last Place I Thought to Look by Emily T. Wierenga takes you on an emotional journey into the arms of the God who heals all wounds. Find more encouragement at Emily’s blog. As a special gift, Emily is giving away a FREE e-book to anyone who orders Atlas Girl, today. For your copy, click HERE, then enter your receipt info HERE, and you’ll receive A House That God Built: 7 Essentials to Writing Inspirational Memoir, co-authored by Emily and her editor/memoir teacher Mick Silva. In celebration of the release of Atlas Girl, Baker Books is giving away 10 copies! Enter to win by leaving a comment on our web site, letting us know why you’d like a copy for yourself OR to whom you would give a book, if you won. {We’ll randomly select 10 winners and send email notifications to each one on Mon., July 7.} REFLECT AND RESPOND: Have you ever felt your Abba Father’s presence in the midst of a difficult time in your life? If so, how? Are you clinging to fear, or do you know the kind of love that casts it far, the kind that evokes utter peace and joy? - See more at: http://proverbs31.org/devotions/devo/#sthash.VYKuRdhj.dpuf
you read it there. It's titled NOT DEFINED BY THE SIZE OF OUR JEANS
“Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:6-7 (NASB) The moon was a slice of white in the night sky. It looked like the rim of a coffee mug, the mug with a picture of a teddy bear saying “I love you beary, beary much” … the mug my brother gave me when I was 13 and hospitalized for anorexia. Here I was again, in a green hospital gown, only this time, I wasn’t hypothermic and 60 pounds. This time I was holding a baby doctors had said I’d never be able to have. He was 8 pounds, 2 ounces, his name was Aiden Grey and I couldn’t stop crying. Because he couldn’t stop hiccupping. “Is he okay?” I touched the nurse’s elbow as she straightened my sheets. She smiled. “Yes,” she said. “There’s nothing that can be done for hiccupping — it just has to take its course,” and I tucked Aiden close to my heart, because I couldn’t tuck him back into my womb. I have two sons now, and I’ve had two miscarriages too, and there’s nothing harder than watching your body fail your baby. But God — He never fails. He is always there. Even in the miscarriage. He was there when I was a pastor’s kid who began starving herself at age 9; when I was an 18-year-old hippie who ran away from home and traveled the world searching for faith. When I came home to a mother who was dying from brain cancer, who still sang Great is Thy Faithfulness from somewhere deep her in sleep. In the midst of our pain, He is there, hanging from a cross, only to rise again. When I was young I stopped eating to avoid feeling pain. Now, I’m learning to wait for the resurrection. I’m learning to trust God in the ache. This past spring, I looked out my office window, saw snow on the ground, and my 2-year-old jumping on our trampoline. Naked. His clothes strewn around him, and he was singing. I laughed even as I ran to cover him, but secretly, I was envious. I envied the freedom to sing naked, oblivious to the audience of a highway running perpendicular to our house. Perhaps this is a picture of what God’s Word invites us to do in 1 Peter 5:7, where it says cast “all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.” It’s not easy to truly cast our anxiety on Jesus in a world that tells us we are defined by the size of our jeans. It’s a lot easier to hide, than trust Jesus with our pain, or our questions about who we are and if we matter. And I think it’s somewhere in there, in that quiet place of being loved — in the mother’s embrace of her baby — that we find ourselves. The other night in a rare moment of quiet in my house, I felt as if I had stepped straight into love. Like it had been waiting there for me the whole time. I saw the real me: a passionate, scatter-brained 33-year-old woman who loves the world deeply and laughs loudly and needs alone time. Who gets paint on the kitchen table when she’s making art, who would rather write than do housework, who has tattoos, who cries when her sons refuse to listen to her. And suddenly I knew who I was. Right in the middle of that sacred moment surrounded by Legos and train tracks. I was loved. It’s who we all are, friends. We’re not defined by the size of our jeans. We’re not the sum of our Twitter followers or the square feet of our house. We are God’s daughters, tucked in His arms, where He aches over hiccups, where He longs to carry our worries, and where He would die for us. He did die for us. Yes, this, friends. We are loved. Dear God, help me know You love me. Help me feel Your caring arms around me today, even in the dark. Help me hear Your voice singing over me. In Jesus’ Name, Amen. TRUTH FOR TODAY: Psalm 46:10, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” (NIV) RELATED RESOURCES: Atlas Girl: Finding Home In The Last Place I Thought to Look by Emily T. Wierenga takes you on an emotional journey into the arms of the God who heals all wounds. Find more encouragement at Emily’s blog. As a special gift, Emily is giving away a FREE e-book to anyone who orders Atlas Girl, today. For your copy, click HERE, then enter your receipt info HERE, and you’ll receive A House That God Built: 7 Essentials to Writing Inspirational Memoir, co-authored by Emily and her editor/memoir teacher Mick Silva. In celebration of the release of Atlas Girl, Baker Books is giving away 10 copies! Enter to win by leaving a comment on our web site, letting us know why you’d like a copy for yourself OR to whom you would give a book, if you won. {We’ll randomly select 10 winners and send email notifications to each one on Mon., July 7.} REFLECT AND RESPOND: Have you ever felt your Abba Father’s presence in the midst of a difficult time in your life? If so, how? Are you clinging to fear, or do you know the kind of love that casts it far, the kind that evokes utter peace and joy? - See more at: http://proverbs31.org/devotions/devo/#sthash.VYKuRdhj.dpuf
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Children and Internet
With the way children are on the internet so much I wanted to share some of the you tube videos that I have found to be actually good and beneficial to our little critters the times they are on the net.
Not that any of these are better of than good old outside play with dirt and nature.
Rizers playlist - this are bible verses made into songs to help children memorize bible verses I have to say when I listen to them with my two year old I have learnt a few verses myself :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5DBY3Bo_NA&list=PLE1B861669C949A48
Veggie tales bible songs and stories - My two year old loves I've got the joy joy joy joy down in my heart. I just you tube search it
www.pbskids.org very educational videos
Busy Beaver - Educational videos for children, my two year old learnt Counting 1-20, ABC's, Colors and Shapes before she turned two.
https://www.youtube.com/user/wearebusybeavers
All in all as we monitor what our children watch on TV and internet we should also let them play outside and learn nature, that is always the most fun, well at least that's what I think.
Not that any of these are better of than good old outside play with dirt and nature.
Rizers playlist - this are bible verses made into songs to help children memorize bible verses I have to say when I listen to them with my two year old I have learnt a few verses myself :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5DBY3Bo_NA&list=PLE1B861669C949A48
Veggie tales bible songs and stories - My two year old loves I've got the joy joy joy joy down in my heart. I just you tube search it
www.pbskids.org very educational videos
Busy Beaver - Educational videos for children, my two year old learnt Counting 1-20, ABC's, Colors and Shapes before she turned two.
https://www.youtube.com/user/wearebusybeavers
All in all as we monitor what our children watch on TV and internet we should also let them play outside and learn nature, that is always the most fun, well at least that's what I think.
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