2007 was really a....um....er...yucky year. (to say the least) I am hoping that 2008 is better.
Kinda down right now and need some inspiration to reach for. I am a person constantly on the go and always busy, and it is really difficult for me to sit back and watch and do nothing. ( I almost feel as though I am sinning) But I believe that the Lord has just kinda Zapped me down for the last few months and not allowed me to be able to "move" people like I once did...ie...I'm not motivated, so when YOU aren't motivated....you can't motivate others, right, duh!!!!
Well, I'm actually in a fox hole at the moment awaiting the respite of the enemy. Been in here a while and it's getting kinda cramped and I don't "wait" very good. I KNOW that if I come out on my own, I will get clobbered, but I'm getting kinda claustophobic in here and I"m tired of the dark and "wet" smell (what I imagine a sod house would smell like, yucky). I'm tired of holding my breath every time I turn around cause I"m afraid I've been found by the wrong person.
Someone told me I needed to get mad, but I just don't have the energy. I should be crying as I type, cause I usually do, but just don't have the energy or anymore tears cause they've already been cried out.....
I'm actually whinning. I shouldn't be....I've got it better than most....Poor Sweet Sis. Alvear and her situation...Ronzo and his situation......lots of other folks who have it a lot worse than me, and here I am whinning....
I just need prayer!!!(it doesn't help that the Skinner is not home for the next few days....he's..............HUNTING!!!)eng uin
Anyways, just pray for me and John Robert while Daddy is away.
Keep the themes coming. I need all the help I can get.
2007 was really a....um....er...yucky year. (to say the least) I am hoping that 2008 is better.
Kinda down right now and need some inspiration to reach for. I am a person constantly on the go and always busy, and it is really difficult for me to sit back and watch and do nothing. ( I almost feel as though I am sinning) But I believe that the Lord has just kinda Zapped me down for the last few months and not allowed me to be able to "move" people like I once did...ie...I'm not motivated, so when YOU aren't motivated....you can't motivate others, right, duh!!!!
Well, I'm actually in a fox hole at the moment awaiting the respite of the enemy. Been in here a while and it's getting kinda cramped and I don't "wait" very good. I KNOW that if I come out on my own, I will get clobbered, but I'm getting kinda claustophobic in here and I"m tired of the dark and "wet" smell (what I imagine a sod house would smell like, yucky). I'm tired of holding my breath every time I turn around cause I"m afraid I've been found by the wrong person.
Someone told me I needed to get mad, but I just don't have the energy. I should be crying as I type, cause I usually do, but just don't have the energy or anymore tears cause they've already been cried out.....
I'm actually whinning. I shouldn't be....I've got it better than most....Poor Sweet Sis. Alvear and her situation...Ronzo and his situation......lots of other folks who have it a lot worse than me, and here I am whinning....
I just need prayer!!!(it doesn't help that the Skinner is not home for the next few days....he's..............HUNTING!!!)eng uin
Anyways, just pray for me and John Robert while Daddy is away.
Keep the themes coming. I need all the help I can get.
Sister Coonskinner, maybe your theme for this year ought to be “be still” it seems that is what the Lord is trying to get you to do? Remember the Prohpet? God got him in a cave, and showed him the wind. But God wasn’t in the wind. God showed him the fire, but God wasn’t in the fire. God showed him the earthquake but God wasn’t in the Earth Quake. God was in the still small voice!
Be still and know that I am God.
Paul said it this way “when you have done everything, just stand still. Be ready but STAND STILL”
God has ordered your steps. All the steps that have led to this set, you accepted as “ordered of the Lord” don’t you think if He ordered those, he is ordering these?
I hope I have not over stepped. May the peace of the Lord be with you.
__________________ If I do something stupid blame the Lortab!
I don't have a fancy catch phrase but I feel that 2008 is going to be a great year. I'm coming out of a self induced shell that caused me to separate myself from people as a whole and religious folk specifically. This is going to be a year that the healing of the past year has brought about. God is going to move (if I may speak churchy for a bit) in my family as a whole. I have a feeling that it is going to be the same with my friends as well.
Overused as a feel-good thing but I'll use it anyway. I believe that this is the year that will be a year of rising out of the ashes. It will be more than just a restoration but a bringing to a higher level of spirituality than ever before through the grace of God. I think that this will be effecting not just spiritual but physical as well.
I'm not a prophet nor do I claim to be a spiritual giant -- but there is a feeling in my bones that I can not explain. One of anticipation. One of expectation. And one of exuberance.
__________________ Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces. | Etienne de la Boetie
I don't have a fancy catch phrase but I feel that 2008 is going to be a great year. I'm coming out of a self induced shell that caused me to separate myself from people as a whole and religious folk specifically. This is going to be a year that the healing of the past year has brought about. God is going to move (if I may speak churchy for a bit) in my family as a whole. I have a feeling that it is going to be the same with my friends as well.
Overused as a feel-good thing but I'll use it anyway. I believe that this is the year that will be a year of rising out of the ashes. It will be more than just a restoration but a bringing to a higher level of spirituality than ever before through the grace of God. I think that this will be effecting not just spiritual but physical as well.
I'm not a prophet nor do I claim to be a spiritual giant -- but there is a feeling in my bones that I can not explain. One of anticipation. One of expectation. And one of exuberance.
Oh Nathan I am so, so glad to hear you say this.
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Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.
I don't have a fancy catch phrase but I feel that 2008 is going to be a great year. I'm coming out of a self induced shell that caused me to separate myself from people as a whole and religious folk specifically. This is going to be a year that the healing of the past year has brought about. God is going to move (if I may speak churchy for a bit) in my family as a whole. I have a feeling that it is going to be the same with my friends as well.
Overused as a feel-good thing but I'll use it anyway. I believe that this is the year that will be a year of rising out of the ashes. It will be more than just a restoration but a bringing to a higher level of spirituality than ever before through the grace of God. I think that this will be effecting not just spiritual but physical as well.
I'm not a prophet nor do I claim to be a spiritual giant -- but there is a feeling in my bones that I can not explain. One of anticipation. One of expectation. And one of exuberance.
NS, I have come across an overwhelming number of restored ministries at the latter half of 2007.
I would love for our Timlan to be among that number this year.
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Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.
Sister Coonskinner, maybe your theme for this year ought to be “be still” it seems that is what the Lord is trying to get you to do? Remember the Prohpet? God got him in a cave, and showed him the wind. But God wasn’t in the wind. God showed him the fire, but God wasn’t in the fire. God showed him the earthquake but God wasn’t in the Earth Quake. God was in the still small voice!
Be still and know that I am God.
Paul said it this way “when you have done everything, just stand still. Be ready but STAND STILL”
God has ordered your steps. All the steps that have led to this set, you accepted as “ordered of the Lord” don’t you think if He ordered those, he is ordering these?
I hope I have not over stepped. May the peace of the Lord be with you.
Brother, in no way have you overstepped!!! You may be right on target. I've not stopped and looked at it that way, been too busy whinning about things.
I've quoted that scripture time and time again, but haven't stopped to quote it to myself and make myself listen.
Brother, I really appreciate this. I feel the peace of the Lord right now sitting at this computer. Thanks for being sensistive to HIS voice.
2007 was really a....um....er...yucky year. (to say the least) I am hoping that 2008 is better.
Kinda down right now and need some inspiration to reach for. I am a person constantly on the go and always busy, and it is really difficult for me to sit back and watch and do nothing. ( I almost feel as though I am sinning) But I believe that the Lord has just kinda Zapped me down for the last few months and not allowed me to be able to "move" people like I once did...ie...I'm not motivated, so when YOU aren't motivated....you can't motivate others, right, duh!!!!
Well, I'm actually in a fox hole at the moment awaiting the respite of the enemy. Been in here a while and it's getting kinda cramped and I don't "wait" very good. I KNOW that if I come out on my own, I will get clobbered, but I'm getting kinda claustophobic in here and I"m tired of the dark and "wet" smell (what I imagine a sod house would smell like, yucky). I'm tired of holding my breath every time I turn around cause I"m afraid I've been found by the wrong person.
Someone told me I needed to get mad, but I just don't have the energy. I should be crying as I type, cause I usually do, but just don't have the energy or anymore tears cause they've already been cried out.....
I'm actually whinning. I shouldn't be....I've got it better than most....Poor Sweet Sis. Alvear and her situation...Ronzo and his situation......lots of other folks who have it a lot worse than me, and here I am whinning....
I just need prayer!!!(it doesn't help that the Skinner is not home for the next few days....he's..............HUNTING!!!)eng uin
Anyways, just pray for me and John Robert while Daddy is away.
Keep the themes coming. I need all the help I can get.
Sis. Sarilda,
Bless your heart! You could have been me speaking some years ago.
Was so restless and felt so unsettled. Seemed I didn't have direction.
I had to be going and doing but it didn't satisfy. When I read your post
a little while ago for the first time, the words, "Be still and know..that I
AM GOD", came to mind. Waiting and patience isn't alway easy for we
ladies. We like to be doing and getting things done. But I have learned
(and I have felt guilty, and the enemy whispering that I had better do
something). One day I realized something had to change. I started by
spending quite time with my LORD. He whispered, "Just be still and know
that I AM GOD! I want you to listen, I AM ...GOD! By faith I listened and
trusted one day at a time. When I saw Bro. Ferd's post I knew God was
indeed speaking the same thing for you.
May you KNOW without a shadow of a doubt that HE knows right where
you are. It is possible that your LORD has just been waiting for you to be
alone so HE could talk to you. Focus on Him, listen for that still small voice.
In the quietness of your aloneness He will speak, perhaps when you are
lying in bed very quietly, listening, He will comfort you, encourage you
and when you read HIS LOVE LETTERS. you will understand why you are
feeling as you do. He wants to calm your fears, your questions and reassure
Bless your heart! You could have been me speaking some years ago.
Was so restless and felt so unsettled. Seemed I didn't have direction.
I had to be going and doing but it didn't satisfy. When I read your post
a little while ago for the first time, the words, "Be still and know..that I
AM GOD", came to mind. Waiting and patience isn't alway easy for we
ladies. We like to be doing and getting things done. But I have learned
(and I have felt guilty, and the enemy whispering that I had better do
something). One day I realized something had to change. I started by
spending quite time with my LORD. He whispered, "Just be still and know
that I AM GOD! I want you to listen, I AM ...GOD! By faith I listened and
trusted one day at a time. When I saw Bro. Ferd's post I knew God was
indeed speaking the same thing for you.
May you KNOW without a shadow of a doubt that HE knows right where
you are. It is possible that your LORD has just been waiting for you to be
alone so HE could talk to you. Focus on Him, listen for that still small voice.
In the quietness of your aloneness He will speak, perhaps when you are
lying in bed very quietly, listening, He will comfort you, encourage you
and when you read HIS LOVE LETTERS. you will understand why you are
feeling as you do. He wants to calm your fears, your questions and reassure
you that HE will never leave nor forsake you.
Blessings,
Falla39
Sis. Falla,
Thanks so much for your kind and anointed words. I am going to try to "Be Still", but even as I type, I cringe, because that is so unlike me. The Lord will help me though.
I really appreciate your beautiful spirit. You are an encouragement to me.
Thanks so much for your kind and anointed words. I am going to try to "Be Still", but even as I type, I cringe, because that is so unlike me. The Lord will help me though.
I really appreciate your beautiful spirit. You are an encouragement to me.
Yours, in HIS service,
Sarilda
Dear Sis. Sarilda,
Of course God is going to help you as HE helped me and others. It was
unlike me also to be still. Prayed for two years for Him to help me discipline
myself to "be still". There were situations which caused me to be unsettled,
frustrated and restless but God saw the desire of my heart. How I thank HIM
for what He has done for and in me! God is no respector of persons as His
Word tells us so!
"Delight thyself in the Lord and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart".
eng uin
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