Friday, June 20, 2008

~ THANK YOU JESUS!!!! ~

PRAISE THE LORD!

My placenta has went back above the baby.  Thanks to everyone that has been praying for us.  I  felt your many prayers. God has truly answered them.

My midwife says that more than likely the placenta will stay there. So I am sooo sooo happy.

Thought I would share the GREAT and AWESOME news.

Thank you

Monday, June 2, 2008

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Tina's Priceless Treasures ~ Tuesday's Tea Time Ladies.

 ~~~Tina's Priceless Treasures is a group of Ladies who get together every Tuesday, we get a chance to sit down, sip a cup of tea, relax and reflect on God. It's a time of "TBF". "Tea, Bible study and Fellowship."

Our goal is to encourage each other in our callings: 1) As women of God, 2) As wives to our husbands and 3) As mothers to our children 4) As grandmothers, mothers, daughters, sisters and aunts and 5) As women in our community.

~~~ We are women helping other women embrace their current situations and circumstances, by equipping them with the truth of God's Word! ~ A place where women who have the same passion to be women who live to please God and to raise their children in the Word of God.

 ~~~ A vision of a family that is different from this world. ~ Women who want to remain pure before the Lord, in speech, deed and dress. ~ We want a standard for our family and our cities. ~ Women who want to learn from one another.

~ Thanks to all of you who are sharing from your heart to all of us. I hope that I can be as much of an inspiration as you have been to me.

Monday, June 2, 2008

~ Keep me in Your Prayers ~

Many of you know that I am currently Placenta Previa and I am 23 weeks. I went into the hospital this weekend for spotting. I am fine and haven't had anymore bleeding. Please keep me in your prayers.

I want to have this baby naturally and without a c-section. I pray that my placenta will go back above the baby and that everything will go smoothly.

I want to thank my dear friend Karen for lifting me up in prayer this weekend and for posting a prayer need on my c-box for me.

Thank you!

Saturday, May 17, 2008

~ Trials... ~

"Trials are not enemies of our faith, but opportunities for our Heavenly Father to show His faithfulness."

I hope that the quote above was of some deep encouragement to anyone who is going through any trials. I have rescently been diagnosed, complete placenta previa. I am 5 months pregnant. I need to request prayer that my placenta will go back to it's original place above the baby. Right now my placenta is covering my cervix. Many of you know this is my 8th child. I have delivered all of my children naturally and with no problems. I would like to be able to do that with this one as well. Please keep me in your prayers. Thank you so much.

I am currently having to be very careful, no walking for exercise, no sex, drink lots of fluids, and get plenty of rest. Thank you all for your love and support and your prayers. I know I can count on you all to lift me up in prayer. I will keep you posted as I find out more.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

~ National Day of Prayer ~

National Day of Prayer ~

http://www.ndptf.org/home/home.html

2008 Prayer for Our Nation

Dr. Ravi Zacharias
2008 Honorary Chairman, National Day of Prayer Task Force



Holy Father, in a world where so many are hungry,
You have given us food in abundance;

In a world where so many are hurting,
You offer to bind up our wounds;

In a world where so many are lonely,
You offer friendship to every heart;

In a world longing for peace,
You offer hope.

Yet, we are so stubborn and resistant.
Have mercy upon us, Lord.

Our nation is at a crossroads this year;
we look to you to be our strength and shield.

Please give us the guidance to elect one who will honor you
and to respond to the wisdom from above
so that our hope may be renewed and our blessings be treasured.

In God's holy name.

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What to Pray for?

Through this prayer guide, you will have an opportunity to petition God on behalf of our leaders and those who are in authority over us, as we are instructed to do in 1 Timothy 2:1-2: As you humbly come before the Lord and seek His face, please pray that these men and women will be granted divine wisdom, guidance and strength to fulfill their important roles.

Who to Pray for?

For Federal Leaders~

President: George W. Bush
Vice President: Dick Cheney
Secretary of State: Condoleezza Rice
Secretary of Defense: Robert Gates
Secretary of the Treasury: Henry M. Paulson
Attorney General: Michael B. Mukasey
National Security Advisor: Stephen J. Hadley
Director of National Intelligence: Mike McConnell
Secretary of the Interior: Dirk Kempthorne
Secretary of Agriculture: Ed Schafer
Secretary of Commerce: Carlos Gutierrez
Secretary of Labor: Elaine Chao
Secretary of Transportation: Mary E. Peters
Secretary of Energy: Samuel W. Bodman
Secretary of Education: Margaret Spellings
Secretary of Veterans Affairs: James B. Peake
Secretary of Health & Human Services: Michael O. Leavitt
Secretary of Housing & Urban Development: Alphonso Jackson
Secretary of Homeland Security: Michael Chertoff
All Branches of the Armed Forces
U.S. Supreme Court

Pray for Your State Leaders~

U.S. Senator: ________________________________
U.S. Senator: ________________________________
U.S. Representative: __________________________
Governor: __________________________________
Lt. Governor: _______________________________
State Senator: _______________________________
State Representative: __________________________
State Supreme Court Justices: __________________

Pray for Your Local Leaders~

County Officials: __________________________________
Court Officials: ___________________________________
City Officials: ____________________________________
Judges: ________________________________________
Mayor: _________________________________________
Police Department: _______________________________
Fire Department: _________________________________
School Authorities (public & private): __________________

Why we Pray?

As American troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, President Franklin Roosevelt called for our nation to unite in prayer. He also offered a prayer to prepare each citizen for the road ahead. "Let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be. And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee." The victory that followed on June 6, 1944-also known as D-Day-began the march to Berlin. Eighteen months later, WWII was over and one of the world's greatest evils had been defeated. The prayers of a nation had been a powerful force.

Prayer has always been used in this country for guidance, protection and strength-even before we were a nation or a handful of colonies. The Pilgrims at Plymouth relied on prayer during their first and darkest winter. Our founding fathers also called for prayer during the Constitutional Congress. In their eyes, our recently created nation and freedoms were a direct gift from God. And being a gift from God, there was only one way to insure protection-through prayer.

President Abraham Lincoln knew this well. It was his belief that, "it is the duty of nations as well as men, to owe their dependence upon the overruling power of God." When it came to the fate of the nation, he practiced what he preached. Before the battle of Gettysburg, he turned to God in prayer. "I went to my room one day and I locked the door and got down on my knees before Almighty God and prayed to him mightily for victory at Gettysburg." Won by the Union, Gettysburg was one of the turning points in the war that ended slavery and kept the states united. Today the need for prayer is as great as ever. Our nation again faces battlefields, along with an epidemic of broken homes, violence, sexual immorality and social strife. As the heroes of our nation did in the past, we must again bow our heads in prayer. We must ask the Lord to bless our leaders with wisdom and protection, and that we will have the fortitude to overcome the challenges at hand. If Roosevelt, the Pilgrims and Lincoln never underestimated the power of prayer, neither should we.

It is our goal that you, your family and friends would participate in the National Day of Prayer. We pray that the event impacts your life, and that praying for our nation moves from a one-day event to a lifetime endeavor. So join us on the first Thursday in May and pray with conviction that God would continue to shed His grace on thee.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

~ Scripture Reflections ~

O GOD, YOU ARE MY GOD!”

I am so excited about what the Lord’s doing right now. It’s a time where the Lord is putting the same cry of David found in Psalm 63 into His people’s hearts:

“O God, You are my God!” The Lord wants to release that cry in us daily, not just on Sundays! It’s saying everyday, “I can’t help but worship the One whom I am extremely, overwhelmingly in love with!” How awesome to awaken every morning with, “O God, You are my God!”

Friends, this is a time to PRESS IN to the Lord for this anointing-the anointing of a worshipful God-seeking heart.

How would you like to awaken every morning with an attentive ear that eagerly anticipates the Word He has waiting to release for you? Aren’t you glad He’s your God?

What a privilege to get out of bed every morning with, “O God, You are my God!” Why do you think God included this passage in the Bible? There’s good reason why the Holy Spirit inspired David to start Psalm 63 off this way, because not only is it a privilege to worship God, but also because we have the privilege of unlimited access to Father God through Jesus, our redeemer.

And as a result of unlimited access, we can go before the throne any time, and we don’t have to bow back, we won’t have to draw away, but we can go before God Almighty and say, “O God, You’re my God!” Why don’t you just praise Him for that privilege right now and tell Him aloud “O God, You’re my God!”

“EARLY WILL I SEEK YOU”

In the next breath, David prays, “Early will I seek You.” The implication here is that God is David’s first love. He seeks God early or first thing in his day.

I tell you, I believe one of the things that the Lord is releasing to the Church right now is a fresh fire of His passion and love. Do you want to His love to consume you afresh? Of course you do! We need the primary motivation for everything we do to be His love.

God wants us to press in to God by faith to receive the imprint of a greater depth of His love in our inner man so that His love flows like a river out of our lives and touches people around us. We’re not going to have to “pump the pump” in worship, but we can just BE worshippers.

Tell yourself right now, “I’m a worshipper.” Do you know why you’re about to break through into this? It is because He’s about to break through for you! You can’t help but be overwhelmed because of His lovingkindness!

“MY SOUL THIRSTS FOR YOU”

How desperate are you for God? Do you thirst or hunger for Him, for His presence? David cried out, “My soul THIRSTS for you, my flesh LONGS for you in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water.”

How desperate is that? His flesh longed for God. Listen, when your flesh longs for Him, you’re living out Galatians 2:20, … “it’s no longer I who live…” It’s saying, “But the flesh crucified and I want Him to live His life through me.”

The flesh doesn’t like to be denied. It likes to eat and it likes its comfort. The flesh is used to getting certain things, and it doesn’t like to let up.

When a group of people denies their flesh to cry out to God…something big is up! I believe the Church has stepped into a new season of hunger. We’re beginning to put a demand on the presence of the Lord and we don’t care what it costs, we just have to have more of HIM!

We have all had wonderful blessings of the Lord in our lives and we’re truly grateful for that but God is stirring up an ache inside of us for more of His presence!

“SO I HAVE LOOKED FOR YOU…”

Hunger is something we must respond to, just as David did. He fed his hunger by feeding himself with revelations and remembrances of God. He’d lie on his bed at night and ponder about Him, and think about God and His goodness. He’d remember things that God had done, or reflect on His character.

Have you ever had little bits of flashbacks of God’s promises in your life? Have you ever been stirred to say, “Oh, I remember the days Lord, when You promised me.. I want to see those days God!” God stirs our hunger. When He stirs yours, how will you respond? Like David? “O God, You’re my God!”

A revelation is coming to the Body of believers whereby we are going to understand deeper still the vastness of God! It will awe us and we’ll marvel that we have access to One so great; that He is OUR God, who spoke everything we see into existence with a word!

He knows the beginning from the end and the end from the beginning, and His counsel stands forever. From “ancient times,” He knows things that are not yet done and says, “My counsel shall stand, and I will do My pleasure!” (Is. 46:10).

It’s just so awesome that this One who speaks is our God and I marvel that we have total access to Him!

While in Dallas for some incredible meetings, one night I awoke out of a dead sleep startling my wife Janet, and she says that I was saying, “Oh God You love me, You love me!”

I recall also saying, “I want those things that You have prepared for me! Holy Spirit, search the deep, deep, deep things of God and give them to me!”

Are you ready to dive into the bottomless treasure chest of God for your life? Listen, when you awake hungry the Lord is up to something in your life because He initiates the hunger.

“IN THE SANCTUARY…”

King David tells God that he has searched Him in the sanctuary: “So I have looked for You in the sanctuary…” Where’s the sanctuary of God? The Bible says that we are the temple “where the Holy Spirit dwells” (1 Cor. 3:16; see also 1 Cor. 6:19.). There’s more though!

We as a Body of believers also are His sanctuary! Ephesians 2:21, 22 tells us that we are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, “Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone, in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.”

Can you imagine a group of people together telling God, “O God, You are our God! We hunger and thirst, we say “No!” to the flesh, and say “Yes” to You!” It will be a whole lot more than a board meeting, praise God! Nothing boring about encountering the Living One!

We will meet with God because of our hunger. When we gather in one accord and cry out to Him because we’re hungry, we WILL GET BREAKTHROUGH in the “sanctuary,” the corporate church body!

Now think for a moment what would happen if your family gathered in the house to say, “O God, You’re our God!” Expect a Jacob’s ladder anointing where your home will become a gate to heaven. Imagine a fresh hunger coming to your household where when people walk into your house, they’ll encounter the Living God!

Do you know that my wife and I cannot get our grown kids to leave our home because they say that it’s so peaceful there? Of course, the Prince of Peace lives at our house! When we hunger for Him, His presence stays!

When I awaken and say, “O God, I hunger!” I hunger for Him and I hunger for Him to blow the lid off anything I’ve ever seen or done before! How about you? How hungry are you? Are you ready to see Him lift limitations?

Gather with others and agree that where two or more gather in His name, to tell Him, “You are our God, we say “NO!” to the flesh and “YES” to you,” that anything is possible!

Hey, it only took 120 people hungering after the promise of the presence of the Holy Spirit to receive the mighty outpouring of God’s Spirit and incredible breakthrough for spreading the Gospel.

“TO SEE YOUR POWER AND YOUR GLORY…”

What did David say after he told God that he looked for Him in the sanctuary? He said that he looked for Him there to “See Your power and Your glory.” We need His power and His glory in our lives! It’s an awesome thing to see the power of the Lord at work! Nothing is impossible for Him.

Even more overwhelming is His glory. Contend to see His glory. Moses said, God, show me Your glory! Are you asking that of God? Remember that YOU are His dwelling place!

Think for a moment what will happen when He shows you His glory and power in His dwelling place. Imagine God’s glory and power exploding in the sanctuary. We need an encounter with God that fills us afresh with His power and His glory. Do you know what happens after a fresh breakthrough and revelation of His power and glory? Of course! Praise!

“Oh God, I’m so glad You’re my God! We’re so glad You are our God!” King David said, “Because Your lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise You!” Our lips shall praise Him!

Once you get a taste of His power and glory, all you’ll want is more. You’ll become desperate! Hungry! Thirsty! Your soul and your flesh will cry out to Him!

Ah, glory in the tabernacle, that’s what I want! Gather your family, gather your church, and cry out to Him for His glory cloud to cover the tabernacle of meeting! When it covers that sanctuary, God fills it with His glory!

“Then the cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle” (Ex. 40:34). The cloud of His presence covers the tabernacle of your life” everywhere you go and on every journey, it covers you. Check out how the cloud of glory affected the children of Israel:

…and Moses was not able to enter the tabernacle meeting because the cloud rested above it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. Whenever the cloud was taken from above the tabernacle, the children of Israel would go onward in all their journeys.

But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not journey till the day that it was taken up. For the cloud of the Lord was above the tabernacle by day, and fire was over it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys” (Ex. 40:34-38).

“ARISE, SHINE!”

The glory makes you shine! “Arise, shine, for your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you” (Isaiah 60:1).

Have you ever been around someone who has just experienced the glory of God? The glory glows so brightly in the inner person that we see its brilliancy!

The Book of Hebrews makes the point that our covenant in Christ Jesus is far better than the Old Covenant of the Law through Moses (see Hebrews 8:6), and if Moses came down from that mountain glowing after leaving God’s presence, how much more we shine with Emmanuel, God With Us!

Oh my gosh! We serve Emmanuel God With Us, His glory constantly an overshadowing cloud of His presence. Are you ready to step into that realm of open heavens? We can live daily with a fresh infusion of dunamis dynamite power to live as an overcomer, not overcome. What’s the difference?

An overcomer says, “I can leap over walls! I don’t see any giants, I see the promises of God and they are “Yes” and “Amen” in the anointing!”

Friends, we are about to see families, churches, and business filled with the cloud of His presence and His power where anyone who encounters us, visits us, or does business with us will encounter God and His presence, and experience true freedom.

The anointing sets captives free! We must have an overcomer’s lifestyle of ruling and reigning in this life. Life shouldn’t rule us! Our walk should be that of living to glorify the Master who said, “Be of good cheer, for I have won!” He wins!

“BREAKTHROUGH FOR HIS PRESENCE”

So, how do we get or see this breakthrough of His presence in our lives? Second Chronicles Chapter Five describes a scene from Solomon’s temple whereby the priests placed an offering on the mercy seat of the altar and the fire of God came down and consumed it.

Afterward, the glory of God filled the temple. For believers, the blood of Jesus is our finished and completed offering. This means that we can ask for the glory of the Lord to fill the temple (us).

When you gather with others, or when you spend time alone with God, do you ask that the cloud of His glory would fall upon you? Do you go for breakthrough?

Maria Woodworth-Etter had this revelation. She understood that she could establish the realm of the kingdom wherever she put up her ministry tent by accessing the tabernacle of His presence and asking for the glory to come.

And when His presence would break through, people in their homes within a twenty-five mile radius from the tent would be overwhelmed by His presence. How desperate are you for that kind of glory to fill the temple?

Think of the possibilities for your city to be touched and awakened to His presence. I’m going to go for breakthrough! At a recent meeting in Cedar Rapids, a healing wave came in and God healed many, though not all.

I went for breakthrough and said, “Now Lord, You healed many the first time, You’ll heal the rest also!” Then another wave came in and when I asked how many had any pain whatsoever, only three raised their hands.

Go for breakthrough! Believe God for breakthrough! You can have breakthrough in every area, including finances and harvest. The enemy loves to attack finances to cripple God’s people, but GOD wants to give us breakthrough so that we can give out of abundance, not lack!

I’m pressing in for Ezekiel Chapter One to be a reality in the Church. I want to see the wheels in the wheels touch the earth. I want to see all the activity of the throne come and overshadow us.

Imagine gathering with other believers and standing in agreement for God to set up His throne over an entire stadium of lost people?

Listen, Ezekiel in his vision stood under the throne and looked up and saw lightnings, thunders, and flashes, and “in the appearance of His glory was the rainbow” (V. 28).

What did it signify? I believe it is the display of the manifold glory of God, which Ephesians 3:10 says will be made “known by the Church.” We will display the glory of God to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms; to spiritual beings both angelic and demonic.

“Manifold” also has the idea of beauty, multicolored having different hues and tints. How would you like to radiate the multi-faceted brilliance of His glory that causes even the principalities of the air to watch your life and go, “Oh my gosh!”

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Wednesday, April 30, 2008

~ My memory verse today ~

18   The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon Me, because He has anointed Me [the Anointed One, the Messiah] to preach the good news (the Gospel) to the poor; He has sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth as delivered those who are oppressed [who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed, and broken down by calamity],

19   To proclaim the accepted and acceptable year of the Lord [the day when salvation and the free favors of God profusely abound.

Luke 4:18-19

Monday, April 28, 2008

~ In the News ~

Be sure to check in the right column under, "In the News.  I have some articles you can read concerning come issues facing us in the news. Please be sure to look through them.

Tina

Thursday, April 24, 2008

~ Thankful Thursdays ~

1. My Life
2. My Husband
3. My Children
4. Salvation
5. The freedom to minister to the lost without facing major persecution
6. Praising my father in open
7. His wonderful word
8. My Blog family and your-alls patience while I was away

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

~ I am SHOCKED!! Please listen to it in it's entirity!! ~

Ladies I am not normally one to post stuff like this on this kind of site, but we need to be informed. I admit I was a regular viewer of Oprah back in the 90's, but I began to see her show take a huge turn towards new age beliefs. I prayer for her in hopes that her Christian upbringing would surface. But Ladies, BEWARE!!! Oprah is truly teaching a new age doctrine and had been quoted to say that there are many ways to get to heaven, Jesus is NOT the only way. Please watch both of these films. Be informed we need to make other women and viewers alike aware of this woman.
She has mislead MANY true believing Christians. I am now understanding truly how even the elect can be deceived in the last days. Her new book that is viewing on the computer has over 2 million followers and 1/2 are professing Christians.
We truly need to live according to 2 Chronicles 7:14
"If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek, crave, and require of necessity My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land."AMP Version

 More information on this issue and how to see it scripturally.

http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/08/tolle.htm

Now I know why I stopped watchin her show over two years ago!!

Tina

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

~ Oprah Denies Christ! ~

Thursday, April 17, 2008

~ Dropping a Line ~

Hello Ladies, all is well here in Ky. I am just taking some time to be with my family. Ariana is doing fine and the new baby we are expecting September 27, 08  Please continue to keep us in prayer. We have many decisions to make concerning ministry and all.

Also, please check out:

www.reigndownusa.com

My church is getting involved in this. April 26, 2008

Nation wide prayer.  Based off of 2 Chronicles 7:14-15.

You can see it posted live 5pm central and 6pm eastern on Godtv.  I am not sure about TBN.

We need to come together and pray for our nation. So please be a part of this great event that God has truly orchestrated for His people.

Please check out the site and get more information.

Tina

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

~ Dropping a Line ~

Ladies,

I haven't forgot about any of you precious ladies. My family and I have been under tremendous spiritual warfare. Please, please keep us in your prayers. Thank you.

I will return soon, but right now my family is my heart and time. Please be patient and keep praying.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

~ Something Fun ~

.. it's harder than it looks. Copy and paste into a new post. Erase my answers and fill in your own. *Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the questions...they have to be real places, names, and things*...and you can't use your name for the boy/girl name question.

What is your name? Christina

4 letter word: cute

Vehicle: Chrysler Pt Cruiser

City: Charleston

Boys name: Christopher

Girls name: Christiana

Movie: Charlotte's Web

Occupation: Counselor

Something you wear: Cross

Celebrity: Carmen

Food: Chicken

Something found in a kitchen: Crock pot

Something found in a bathroom: Counter

Reason for being late: Car accident

Cartoon character: Charlie Brown

Something you shout: Cut (actors)

Animal: Cheetah

Body Part: Collar Bone

Now it's your turn!! And no cheating using Google!!

 It might also be fun to add which one was the

hardest for you.. the hardest for me was the cartoon

character one!!

Thanks Jennifer, this was really fun.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

~ Morning Coffee ~ Trusting in Jesus ~

  As God's child we learned that God is calling us to be Christ like, to live a Godly life of  love, doing good works and being a light in a dark world. We also discover we are in spiritual battle—a life and death struggle against Satan and his forces. If that were not bad enough we now understand that our flesh (self life) is an enemy to God and is naturally hostile to God’s  purposes. The flesh is part of us until the day we die but is no longer our true identity. We are saints who still have a bent toward wrong doing. Our flesh (self life) is easily tempted by the lure of the world system. Our minds and hearts can easily be led astray by the wiles of Satan.

Also, we can be weighed down and oppressed by the troubles of this life. This can drive us to despair until we realize that Jesus Christ is to be our life!!

Colossians 3:4 ~ When Christ, Who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in [the splendor of His] glory.

The high calling of the Christian life in the midst of such adversity is humanly impossible! As God’s children, God helps us to recognize that we can not produce His Godly, loving life in our own strength.  God knew life was too difficult so He came to live in us! What good news, in the midst of our human weakness God’s power is perfected!!

2Corinthians 12 9,10 ~  9)But He said to me, My grace (My favor and loving-kindness and mercy) is enough for you [sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully]; for My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness. Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weaknesses and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me!

    10)So for the sake of Christ, I am well pleased and take pleasure in infirmities, insults, hardships, persecutions, perplexities and distresses; for when I am weak [in human strength], then am I [truly] strong (able, powerful in divine strength).

As we learned, Jesus Christ is the power of God.

1Corinthians 1:24 ~ But to those who are called, whether Jew or Greek (Gentile), Christ [is] the Power of God and the Wisdom of God.

God’s goal is for us to abandon our self effort to live the Christian life and by faith depend on Jesus to live His perfect life through our body as we  practice yielding to Him in every area of our life. Life’s difficult challenges, decisions, problems, and trials are the catalyst that leads to brokenness which allows God to teach us to trust Him by child like faith versus trusting in our human wisdom and strength.

Our  inadequacy allows for God’s ability to work as we learn to depend on Him. The submission of our will to God and trusting Him by faith allows the power of God to overcome our fleshly bent toward sin and self sufficiency. Our human emotions and self will need to be yielded to God. This can be a battle since our feelings at times can be quite contrary to God's will & plan for us.

Bible verses to think about:

A. Read 2Corinthians 3:4-5, 4:7-12, 12: 9-10, Philippians 4:13, Galatians 2:20-21. These verses help us to see that we are not adequate to live the Christian life in our own strength. As we practice trusting and resting  in Jesus as our life, he will strengthen us by living His life thru us.

B. The trials allowed in our lives can seem totally overwhelming and impossible to bear. Read 1 Corinthians. 10:13, 2 Corinthians 1:8-11. The apostle Paul implies that the trials are too much for us to bear in our own strength but only thru God's power can we bear them.  Notice in 2 Corinthians 1:9, that the Apostle Paul says God allowed the trial so they would not trust in themselves! Individual prayer and corporate prayer play in God’s deliverance. If we are facing overwhelming troubles call on the Lord to be our strength and have other believers pray for you. Remember a life of faith is a life of prayer! This is why  1 Thessalonians 5:17 tells us to pray without ceasing which means if you have trouble pray!

C. Read Mark 14:32-39,John 5:19, Hebrews 4:14-15. Jesus in the garden suffered great conflict between His feelings and doing God's will. Reread Mark 14:38 (weak means totally without strength). Jesus is telling us that our flesh has no strength to carry out God's will but the Holy Spirit is willing to work thru us if we submit our human will to Him when we are tempted. Romans 8:26-27 The Holy Spirit intercedes for us even when we are too weak to pray for ourselves.

D. The key to our rest is God's indwelling presence and that He will be with us in life's difficulties. (Colossians 1:27) In Matthew 1:23 Jesus was called Emmanuel which means "God with us". Exodus 33:13 God said, "My presence will go with thee, and I will give thee rest. For the Christian, Jesus lives in us and we are to practice resting in His life and power to work thru us..

E. Colossians 3:4 tells us Jesus is our life. Colossians 3:5 tells us we are to practice putting to death the deeds of our flesh. Romans 8:13 implies that  these deeds of the flesh can only be neutralized by the power of the Holy Spirit. Only by practicing resting in Jesus as life can we begin to overcome the sinful passions of our flesh. Romans 8:10-11 tells us that since Jesus lives in us it is the Holy Spirit that produces His abundant life in us.

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

~ We Need Healing!! ~

I am so sorry, my whole house has been sick with the stomach bug.  Yuck.  Between bathroom trips and big bowls all over the house, I am soo ready for spring and fresh air!

Friday, February 8, 2008

~ More Pictures ~

Me and my Beloved

Kayla and Spencer

Ariana and big bubby ~ Josiah

Ariana ~ who loves to be spoiled ~ hehe

More pic of the rest of the children soon.

Friday, February 8, 2008

~ Ariana ~ Our Little Snow Bunny ~

 My Oldest 15 year old Kayla and myself 

 My Lil' Ariana ~ My Snow Bunny

 Kayla's Lil' Twin

Thursday, February 7, 2008

~ She Speaks Conference Check it out! ~

Speaking, Writing and Leadership Conference! (With special sessions for Bloggers!) Lysa TerKeurst from Proverbs 31 Ministries has asked Shannon, Melanie and Boo Mama to lead a couple of sessions on blogging at this summer’s She Speaks Conference in Concord, North Carolina. The conference is scheduled for June 20-22, 2008 ! Lysa is also giving someone the opportunity to earn a scholarship to attend the conference.

I have been wanting to attend one of these conferences for quite some time now.  It is something I know I need to do. Many of my close friends and loved ones keep telling me I need to write a book. I am currently working on a children's book and a woman's devotional.study.

I enjoy writing, painting and helping women.  I try to use speaking, art therapy and writing as my outlets to help women heal.  I am working very hard this year to get my ministry "The Father's Heart ~ Living a Life the is Completely His" this year.

This conference would be such a great opportunity for me. As many of you know I am due to have my 8th child in September and I haven't really taken the time out for me. The last conference I went to was in October of 2002 in California with Women's Aglow and loved it!!!

So, I pray that God will make a way for me to attend. Ladies keep me in your prayers for the financial end and please check out this site. I am a huge believer in Proverbs 31 Ministries. I have  a section on my blog, (on the left side) please check out all the ladies sites. These women are truly,. truly used of God.

Thanks and have a Blessed Day

Thursday, February 7, 2008

~ Thankful Thursdays ~

1. My relationship with Alpha and Omega, my Father ~ God
2. My relationship with My Beloved Savior, Redeemer, Bridegroom ~ Jesus
3. My relationship with my friend, counselor, guide, comforter, ~ Holy Spirit
4. My relationship with my best friend, lover, soul mate, priest, prophet, king of my home ~ my husband
5. My relationship with my beautiful, precious, uniquelly made soon to be 8 children
6. All my family anf friends
7. God's Beautiful Love Letter to me and my loved ones.
8. My home here and in heaven
9. My life ~ that I can praise Him daily with in all things.
10. You ~ my listeners and friends who I have enjoyed getting to know and hope become closer to.