To poop or not to poop.....

Old devotion from 08' It is funny though how God brings things to our attention just at the right time! Ummmmm... See a pattern here ladies and gentlemen?? GOD's Timing is ERYTHING!!!!! Kinda funny how Pastor Mark was just talking about covering our poop and walking away!! Anyone who doesn't go to my church can check out the sermon on our website g12orlando.com I believe it was the teaching on 01/03/2010!

Gen 1:28God blessed them:Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge!Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air,for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth."

God tells us to take responsibility (ownership) in our lives, and that means for us to know what is ours to take care of and what we don't need to worry about. It takes wisdom to know what we should be doing,because we can't do everything. God broke something in me that I didn't realize was still in me, and it stems back to my marriage and my ex husband. I realized that I am nice out of fear, this was a HUGE thing for me this morning I used to be this way with my ex husband I did everything out of fear, and I see this creeping back in."HELLO JENNIFER" God was saying to me the spirit of fear, rejection, and people-pleasing lay in side of you. WHAT? I thought all of this was gone. Nope, and it is all my fault because I didn't take complete ownership of what God has given me.Now that I start thinking, it is hard for me to realize what are my responsibilities and what aren't. I know that God doesn't expect me to do everything, and now realizing that it shouldn't matter what people in the world expect me to be or do.This doesn't fall into my daily responsibilities, but this falls into not doing things for people out of fear that they won't like me.God revealed to me a vision of a house with a zero lot line and a house with a lot of space around it, boundaries around my heart is what God wants me to do. I need to stop having a zero lot line around my heart and letting people look in my "windows" and letting their dogs poop in my yard, because I don't want people pooping on my heart then walk away. Once they walk away they feel better, but then I have to sit and try to justify that it was ok for me to let them dump on me because that is the "Christian" thing to do.Today I will realize what is my responsibility and what isn't!

Do your best and let God do the rest!!

Col 3:23-24

23 In all the work you are doing, work the best you can. Work as if you were doing it for the Lord, not for people.24 Remember that you will receive your reward from the Lord, which he promised to his people.

This could not of been put on my heart at a better time!!! Gods timing is perfect!!!

In this world we have to fight for our dreams sometimes, but what I have failed to remember is that it is ok to put God in the ring and let him do our dirty work to get those dreams. We are told not to do things on our own, and to lean on God! I need to remember that what I am doing I am doing it my best and not to worry about anything else because God is there to lend his had or right hook ;) God calls us to have dreams and that if is something he wants us to have then he will fulfill those dreams we don't have to fight for them because they are gifts from God to us. I came across this acronym for dream that I though was awesome.

D Determination

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. So if you want to do more than mediocre work you've got to get up each morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction!!!! Our dream fulfillment begins with determination, we have to have that before God will swoop in and help if it is something he wants us to have. I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything. And that which I can do, by the grace of God , I will do!!

R Readiness

Be ready and have a plan for your dream

E Excellence

Why settle for "good enough" when you can reach excellence for the Lord!!

God wants us to have the desires of our heart so why would we settle when there is so much more he wants us to have!!?? This is a mindset that I am working on trying to get out of and when you've been stuck there for so long it is a hard place to get out of, but I know that God can help me with that! :) and in the end my life will be Excellent!!!

A Attitude

We cannot change our past, nor can we change the fact that people will act in a certain way. The only thing that we can do is play the one string we have, and that is our attitude. 10% of life is what happens and 90% is how we react to it! Attitude is a small thing that can make a big difference!! This is something I learned awhile back and let me tell you this has helped me A LOT!!

M Meaning

It's not the meaning of life, it's the meaning in life!!!

Living out our dream we will grow in appreciation that life is a precious gift that God places in our hands for a purpose!! So when I get down about dreams not happening I just need to realize that it is a gift and gifts are meant to be a surprise, and who better to get a surprise from the God!!!

Promises Promises

James 1:3-4 (New Century Version)
3 because you know that these troubles test your faith, and this will give you patience.4 Let your patience show itself perfectly in what you do. Then you will be perfect and complete and will have everything you need.

Since I have been saved God has always reached me through songs, weather it be a worship song or something from the 80's! Well for the past few days all that has been stuck in my head is that song from the 80's Promises Promises. Not the whole song but just the part where it says promises promises. The funny thing is I haven't even heard that song in along time, but I know that God is speaking this to me! After reading this verse this morning I really know in my heart that goals that I have made for this year that are going to need the help of God majorly in will happen, because he is promising me that I will have everything that I need!! There are 2 things personally going on in my life that are really testing my faith and I have just come to realized that this morning, I didn't see it as a test of faith, but just something i was going through! So I know God is building my patience right to give me a awesome gift in the end!! So what I am taking from this, and this seems to be a common thing that I have to learn, but I am starting to see it Gods way, is wait He WILL NOT give me anything I can't handle, He knows my limits and I might think it is a good idea in His eyes it might not be just as I heard yesterday at church. We might be thinking God's way but our flesh tells us something different. So I will continue to seek the promises promises that God has for me and rejoice when they happen because I know it is all done in His timing

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!!!