Life is Beautiful :)

James 1:12
Anyone who meets a testing challenge head-on and manages to stick it out is mighty fortunate. For such persons loyally in love with God, the reward is life and more life.

I am learning very important life lessons in being a single parent, and being tested in every avenue of life along with it. I pray for understanding on some situations that I am being faced with right now. This verse really sicks out to me bcause even though God is putting me through a challenge right now I know out of it will birth something new and that something new is my reward!!! I continue to be loyal to my God knowing that he only has my best intrest at hand is such an amazing feeling (isn't it just awesome to know that we have a God that sent his one and only son to die for us so we didn't have to worry) I see people around me at work (that are christians too) going through same situations as me and they are so stressed out, yet I sit back and hand it over to God because why should I worry about the small things of the world??? I am about my Fathers business and I know in the end I will be rewarded greatly for that :)

Timing! Timing! Timing!

Ecclesiastes 3:1
There is a time for everything, and everything on earth has its special season.

I have been told over and over by different people wait on God's timing! Let me tell you it can get pretty annoying when, and all you want to say to that person telling you that, "sure it's easy for you to say!" Well God told me that already a couple times in the last few days, and also very clearly in a dream. Of course I am not going to tell God, "sure it's easy for you to say!" Cause he knows what he's talking about. I have been very prayer specific since the beginning of the year on one topic (yes I know it is only 5 days into the year, but I really believe that God is going to provide me with what I have been asking for and soon) For personal reasons I am not going to share what I have been praying for on here. God spoke to me that this year is a year for peace for me and already I have started acting like a little kid knowing that I am going to get something and I have already got a little antsy. God told me "please listening it is ALL about my timing and you have screwed this same thing up before and you didn't even know it because you didn't wait on my timing!' WOW that was a slap in the face, and a wake up call to me. So yes there are things that I want to happen now, but if they don't, and God is telling me he will provide that thing that I am praying for then I will just wait!! So I will wait on Gods timing and instead of constantly looking at my watch to see the second it will happen, I will sit in peace knowing that God wants me to have the best!! This is a good thing for all of us to learn to relax and sit in God's glory knowing that he will give us the desires of our heart! :)

Trimming back the old!!

I wanted to share this revelation that I have had pretty much all week. God has been showing me this in different way and also shining blessings in my life!!

John 15:1-2 1"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.

I heard this verse on Monday and let it really sink into my life because of some events that have been taking place. I said God speak to me, well I opened up the flood gates when I asked. God reminded me that he does not tell us to be busy but he tells us to be fruitful, and if we keep on doing things in our life that we are comfortable (to look busy) to we need to examine if we are reaping fruit from it. Often we settle, we think that it is better to stay in routine, it is like we are tell God and others that He is not capable of giving us anything better. It clearly states in the verse above that he trims the branches back so we can be EVEN MORE fruitful!! So the bottom line is If we settle for what we have now, we are denying God the opportunity to bless us, do not break Gods heart that way. Let Him bless us with His best for us!! So ask yourself this question today cause I have been asking it all week, "Is the fear of change denying you blessings that God wants to give you?" This week I got rid of that fear and already I am seeing the blessings in my life!!! So allow God to trim back your branches that are not producing and let the ones that are producing, produce more!! God is not pushy so you will have to allow him to do this in your life!

I have found my path and I am running down it knocking things out that get in my way!!!!

Psalm 56:13 (The Message)
God, you did everything you promised, and I'm thanking you with all my heart. You pulled me from the brink of death,my feet from the cliff-edge of doom. Now I stroll at leisure with God in the sunlit fields of life.

After almost 2 weeks God has really pulled up out of a really dark place that I didn't even realize I was in and he has spiritually smacked me around too! Lets just say having God as your sparing partner is not always fun. I have been searching for that path to a sound mind and on Wednesday I found it!!!! and since I have had so many doors opened up! He did everything that he told me He was going to do before He did it and even though I didn't understand at all where he was talking me, I knew to trust in God completely. Even though this week I walked through the Valley of the shadow of death or what it felt like to me was the desert, I knew that God was going to show his light to me and he did in a BIG way!!!!!! I feel honored to have a King as my Father and now I know when God speaks to me a promise not to try to look into it so much, but just know that He will ALWAYS provide!!!!!! I am speaking this out that I am a new creation this week, I am out of the desert and will walk in the light of my father, and not in the lies of the enemy!!! (Rocky THEME SONG PLAYING!!!)I am a contender in this "world" but I know I am a champion in the Kingdom!!!

Ezekiel 37:1-14 (The Message)

Breath of Life

1-2 God grabbed me. God's Spirit took me up and set me down in the middle of an open plain strewn with bones. He led me around and among them—a lot of bones! There were bones all over the plain—dry bones, bleached by the sun.
3 He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?"
I said, "Master God, only you know that."
4 He said to me, "Prophesy over these bones: 'Dry bones, listen to the Message of God!'"
5-6 God, the Master, told the dry bones, "Watch this: I'm bringing the breath of life to you and you'll come to life. I'll attach sinews to you, put meat on your bones, cover you with skin, and breathe life into you. You'll come alive and you'll realize that I am God!"
7-8 I prophesied just as I'd been commanded. As I prophesied, there was a sound and, oh, rustling! The bones moved and came together, bone to bone. I kept watching. Sinews formed, then muscles on the bones, then skin stretched over them. But they had no breath in them.
9 He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath. Prophesy, son of man. Tell the breath, 'God, the Master, says, Come from the four winds. Come, breath. Breathe on these slain bodies. Breathe life!'"
10 So I prophesied, just as he commanded me. The breath entered them and they came alive! They stood up on their feet, a huge army.
11 Then God said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Listen to what they're saying: 'Our bones are dried up, our hope is gone, there's nothing left of us.'
12-14 "Therefore, prophesy. Tell them, 'God, the Master, says: I'll dig up your graves and bring you out alive—O my people! Then I'll take you straight to the land of Israel. When I dig up graves and bring you out as my people, you'll realize that I am God. I'll breathe my life into you and you'll live. Then I'll lead you straight back to your land and you'll realize that I am God. I've said it and I'll do it. God's Decree.'"

For the past week I have been feeling like dry bones, I know that God has me at this place though to teach me what I really need to be fighting for. I have been trying to prophesy over my own dry bones and guess what that doesn't work AT ALL!!!! I need to stop and let God do that instead of looking around and seeing myself laid out all over the place. Sometimes in life we try to hard to make everything right in our lives and we get so pulled apart and worn out that we end up like a pile of dry bones. I know God is working in my life and breathing back into it, my skin is growning back, my muscles are connecting again. Sometimes in life we have to be a broken mess for God to reach us, and it doesn't matter where we are in our lives. God gives us seasons in our life to help us grow, and it is funny when he decides to do it when we "think" everything is ok. This time I am seeing though it is God stretching me and not the enemy trying to get me down, which has been very hard for me to do in the past, I am not giving the enemy credit anymore!! I am standing up and realizing God wants me to grow and not stay stagnant!!! I know it will take sometime for my bones and muscles to be back in shape, but with God as my trainer I know that I will be back in tip top shape in no time!!!!!!!

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!!"