All or Nothing!

Matthew 9:20-22

20Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. 21She said to herself, "If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed." 22Jesus turned and saw her. "Take heart, daughter," he said, "your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed from that moment.

This morning at 2am God answered a question I have been seeking for the answer to and though the question in personal, the answer was "It is all or nothing Jen!!" All I could think about at that time was poker, you take risk and sometimes you put all that you have in or you hold on to what we have because it is "safe" for us. Well needless to say I wanted to stomp my feet like alittle girl and cry. The reason for this fit is because this answer could change a major area of my life. Reading in Matthew the passage above REALLY made me think about my problem. The woman that was subject to bleeding, thought all she needed to do was touch Jesus's cloak to be healed, and what he said to her is what got to me was, "It is your faith that has healed you" WOW so I am now trying to see how I can apply this all or nothing attitude to the situation at hand, and know that I have the faith that it will not make a huge change in my life!!! I have the faith that God is in this situation with me and he is guiding me, just as he has been guiding me through it all along but sometimes it takes a spiritual smack in the head to make us realize that God always has our best interest at heart , and he has what is in our hearts in his hands!

The way you know you have a boy when........ (Isaacism)

So on Fridays I go into work an hour later so that means alittle more sleep for Isaac and I in the morning, well this morning I woke up right before he did and I peeked in on him squriming and moving around. Since he didn't see me and wasn't fully awake I went and let the dog out and came back and checked on him. I say good morning buddy and he turns over sticks his finger in the air and says, " Here mom I just pulled a big booger out!" LOL as I proceeded to take it off his finger I said, "Well good morning to you too honey!!"

Listen to the Music!!! You may just be suprised!!

I love the fact that God has an amazing sense of humor, cause he knows that is what I can relate to!!! It doesn't surprise me that he has been answering the specific prayers I have been praying with music, dreams, and people that I would never believe would ever say some of the things I have heard (good things). I have to sit back and laugh though, cause I can sit and pray and pray and pray and N O T H I N G!!! I feel like sometimes I need a megaphone to make my prayers louder. Well that is how it has been for me for the past 2 months looking for answers, so finally I said God I am not going to let this bother me anymore, and I know you have your hand in this situation and I know it is about your timing. Well wouldn't you know within a week I have heard 3 songs that have related to my issues, I was talking to my dad (my dad here on earth) yesterday, and he said something that would of never in a million years would of come out of his mouth, and then I had a dream last night to sum some other things up. It makes me laugh and appreciate his sense of humor because I LOVE MUSIC!!!! and what I have learned God will use the things and people we love to talk to us sometimes!!!!!Well I am sure glad God knows how I work and what really will speak to me. Just remember sometimes we want God to speak to us directly, but sometimes he wants us to sit back and enjoy the music :)

In the search of a Path!!!!

A sound mind. I don't know about you, but I sure would like to have sound mind. Did you know that a sound mind is a promise of God? Something that surely is in the will of God for us. Now, let me tell you, the world we live in is trying its best to give you an unsound mind--but God through His word says different.....

"For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." (2Timothy 1:7)

So many things of the world tell us we are doing things wrong when we feel deep down we know they are right, I have learned over the last couple of days that, when those occasions arise and we find ourselves questioning is this Gods voice either A. Speaking to me through someone or B. Are the things that I am hearing really from God.? It gets to the point where we just wanna say SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH and sometimes we can, but other times it is better for us to stop and really listen. The feeling of hearing every ones opinions and trying to feel like you have to make everything right gets tiring!! and you feel like all you can hear is noise and you never have a sound mind. Well I am here to tell you if you have the fear of God in your heart, you learn to sit back and not fear what everyone else is thinking. Also there are things in our lives we want answers to and we want them badly, and the enemy knows that you are seeking God for those answers and will swoop in and pollute your brain with confusion, and one thing that I have learned in the past 8 months that God does not hold the spirit of confusion, the situation or person that you are letting control you and making your mind unsound holds the spirit of confusion! We also have to realize that the spirit of fear (fear of the worldly things) is what causes us to have a unsound mind, so if we learn to fear God and trust in him with everything in our lives who else to we have to fear when God has our back??? God has laid out a path for us to follow to receive the sound mind He promises. The two steps that lead to your sound mind are by power and love.
Power. Get power. Well it makes perfect sense that if we can have God's power, we certainly won't have fear any longer--and will be well on our way to a sound mind. Love. Did you know that love is a commandment? Love gives results. God is love-(1John 4:8)--and His power works through love--and specifically for the results we are looking for. Wow! If you have the mind of Christ how can you not have a sound mind? But you have to know this You have to get it clear and strong in you Jesus has all power that His love casts out all fear. So when you are in Christ living in His love you have His mind and that is a sound mind! But look again The Bible says we can't say we love God and hate our brother. Sometimes we have to forgive some people in our lives that we really would rather not and I know it's tough, but you gotta just think of the sound mind that the Lord has for you! It does take time for this to happen and it will happen as long as ou are willing to let it!!!!

Don't Be Deceived By a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing......

Genesis 3:4-5

4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

God gave me a word, and it is from the old children's story of Don't be deceived by a wolf in sheep's clothing. Looking back when Eve was deceived by the serpent, it is almost the same moral. Relating this to the world today it still sticks so true, and it sticks true to some things that are happening in my life. There are things that seem like they are good like the little sheep in the story thinking that the wolf was his mother and he followed it into the woods, and well we know the rest of the story the little sheep goes bye bye :( Well this can hold true to the way the enemy can put some things in front of you that you think is ok, and think that it is God instead. These things can be things like friendships and situations in life. We can stay in the rut of our life that we are used to and be deceived into following the wolf into the forrest or we can get out of our rut and run into open pastures with our heard (God and his angels)

God is my wart Medication!!!!!!!!

Philippians 4:6-7 (The Message)

6-7Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

Well lately I have been dealing with things that the enemy has been throwing my way, and well I thought that I had been dealing with them and letting them bounce off my rubbery Jesus Jacket. Well Guess what??? That's not the case, I have been trying the whole I'm rubber you're glue prayer (just an expression not really how I pray), but that has not worked. So today I have been totally asking God for guidance and he has given me this verse twice!! I got it once for my teaching tomorrow, and then I went to look something else up and BAM there it was in my face again!!! So I took the time to read it and it was almost like God saying, "Hello McFly!!" He is telling me he hears my cries and knows what is going on in my life. Sometimes we can tend to shake our fist at God and say, "it's clear as day to me, why aren't you doing anything to speed the process up?" Then when you don't hear from God you start to become a Worry Wart, and no over the counter (quick fix) will help you. You need to wait upon the Lord and let him take care of the warts in your life. God is like the meds you go and get from a doctor or like cryotherapy, even though they may take awhile to work and get into your system, the warts are usually gone for good! But if you use the ones you get from the store which are usually a band aid type deal they are a quick fix yes, but the warts usually come back. So if we worry about the things that God has a remedy for and we try to handle things on our own then, what's going to happen are these things that we worry about will pop back up like the warts you covered with a medicated band aid. So many time we fail to see that we cover our heart with a band aid instead of letting God truly heal, and when a band aid starts to get old the side roll down or it falls off. That allows germs (words of the enemy) work back into your heart, so what this means is that before we try to self medicate ourselves we need to spiritually medicate ourselves instead with the Word of God. So with this said I am going to let God remove the wart that has been on my mind for a few days, because I am not the doctor He is!!!!

Isaacism!!!!

So Isaac went camping last weekend, as I was getting him prepared to experience this amazing adventure (cause it was super cool for a 5 year old) I told him that he wouldn't be home until after church on Sunday, and at that point he looked at me very concerned and said in a very like are you serious voice. "Mom then how am I gonna praise God then?" Alright everyone say "AWE......." I love him SO much he is the best kid around!!!! I told him he could praise God in the woods cause he is always listening! He then say to me, "you're the best mom ever!"