Time.....where does it go?

How in the world can you stretch a 24 hour day?

let me hear some ideas from ya'll. I need to find a way....laughing cause I know I really can't but if I could it would be stretched out to at least 56 hours a day with the current list of things I have going on.

Bound up in chains....you don't have to be

Yep you've got it, this is a picture of chains.
These chains are sometimes invisible around our arms and legs and you can't see they are even there, but God knows if we are wearing them.

But why do we wear them? Because we are in bondage to things in our lives that we haven't given up to God therefore we are bound to them.

But you know what every "Tuesday" night God is breaking our chains one link at a time in our little Bible Study group. I think all of our ladies are wearing chains, maybe some not as many as others and some wearing so many they can't even walk, but all of us have links to break and things in our lives that need to be "free" and tonite God freed many of us. Thank you Lord for leading us and showing us how to smash those links that are holding us.

Instead of being held in bondage I want to be held in You Lord. When I stay in Your Word, in prayer to You these are the places that will teach me how to break a link to freedom and to stay in a right relationship with you.

One link at a time Lord.....

Still....

Have you ever thought about this word "still"?

Well as my Sunday School teacher was giving us the message God layed on her heart to share with us this past Sunday she said something during her lesson that got me to thinking about this one word. She was teaching from Acts Chapter 1 and as she continued to share my mind kept wandering to this word.

I kept saying Lord what is it about this word that you want me to glean, gain, learn? So He hit me right between the eyes with His answer, here are some of the things He was saying to me:

• is your relationship "still" in the same place it was when you first accepted me or have you grown?
• what have you "still" not changed that I told you to?
• do you "still" love me the same as you did or has your love for me grown deeper since then?
• do you "still" do the same ol' things you did back then or are they now things that honor and praise me?
• do you "still" pray and read my Word everyday?

God was hitting me with a left and right continually during Sunday School. When I got home I thought hmm..let me look up the meaning of this word "still" in Webster's to see what it says is the meaning, ok here it is:

---quiet, motionless, calm

When I read this meaning my immediate thought came to the verse in the Bible Psalm 37:7 (NLT) Be "still" in the presence of the Lord and wait patiently for Him to act.

I quickly realized there are some areas in my life I'm "still" not being obedient to the Lord about and surrendering to Him, so how can I expect Him to "still" be satisfied with me when I'm "still" not doing, obeying, surrendering those things to Him.

God I pray right now that I will be quiet, motionless and calm as I hear you, and listen to you speak to what you need to change in me today. Thank you for allowing me to pick up this little but powerful word "still" in your lesson as it has taught me so much since then about what I'm "still" doing or not doing and what You "still" want me to be doing.

One thing I know for sure, I want to go deeper "still" in my knowledge and relationship with my Lord, and I look forward to the quiet, motionless and calm as He takes me there.

Saying the blessing for your meal...

I recently met a child who when we were out eating at a restaurant and the family got ready to say a prayer for the meal, they ask the little girl that was a guest of them that day if she would like to say the blessing and she said NO and placed her hands up by her face and then said to the mom "I don't know a blessing"

The mom said to her "you don't know the prayer God is great, God is good.......etc. etc.

The little girl said NO....and looked sadden...scared...frightened as if the family thought bad of her because she didn't know it.

It's up to us to teach the children in the world how to pray even a blessing for our food.

We can't expect children to have a relationship with God if we aren't willing to spend time to teach them how to pray....because one day a prayer will lead to a prayer of asking God to be their Savior....Yeh....if we don't teach them now....how will they know.....

So are we?.....those are simple words....easy to learn...and as they get older their prayers become even better....special conversations between them and God....

Come on everyone let's do some teaching....

Is this what it feels like?

So this is what it feels like not to have kids at home anymore. Kevin is gone for 3 days to visit his sister and brother-in-law in Conway.

Well let me say to the whole world. I don't like it!

I've heard people say forever, "it will be so nice when our kids grow up and move out then we can do so many things we haven't been able to do since we got married"

Phooey! I love my kids being at home with us and I miss them terribly.....

What kind of Junk is in your trunk?

This is one of the topics we discussed during Bible Study last night. I'm using this picture to represent someone who just has all kinds of junk and doesn't know where to put it or what to do with it, so they just kept piling it up in a trunk.

What kind of junk do we have in our trunk? Nope I'm not talking about the ol' hope chest you have at home filled with momentos of your life going back to your childhood and sometimes as far back as great-grandparents even, nor am I talking about the ol' tool boxes and such in your husband's shop, nor boxes tucked away in your attic or closets that just keep seem to keep piling up the longer you live. We have no where to put the "stuff" so we just continue boxing it up, and storing it somewhere so that one day we have to deal with all of it.

I'm talking about all the "junk" we have stored in our souls that we just keep boxing up, storing away, hiding in the crevices so far back till our trunks are now "overflowing". Our souls need to be "freed"

So ask yourself these questions:

1. Why am I holding onto all the junk?

2. Am I going to "really" use or need this junk later?

3. If it's junk why am I not throwing it away?

4. Am I scared to get rid of it? If so, why?

It's time to do some house cleaning or I like to say some "junk-cleaning".

Let's get RID of the junk from our trunk(lives), so God has room to move into that free space and use us again for HIS GLORY! Yeh!

Got Junk?