So it's super early in the morning and I have decided to take advantage of this disadvantage created by my body refusing to go back to sleep. I have a seven page paper due on Friday and for the most part I've just been brainstorming. What a more perfect time to start typing it now, in the early hours of the morning (by the way you'll NEVER find me up this early). Let me tell you the real reason why I'm awake so early.
My mind has been full, I mean crammed packed with "stuff". Besides the fact I feel myself getting this sickness that everyone seems to have at work, my brain is keeping me awake. The Lord has placed something in my life that I've been pondering a lot of the past month. One of those moments where I say "Am I really ready for this Lord?" Being a woman, I analyze everything over and over and over. My mind runs in circles thinking of every possible result of this particular situation.
I've been praying a lot about this particular situation. Telling the Lord that I don't want to make the wrong choice. That control factor is killing me, when it's completely out of my hands it drives me crazy. Even when I know that when the control is in the Lord's hands it's ALWAYS what's best. If things were in my control they would be a disaster. I know from scripture that His ways are best, He knows exactly what I need and when I need it.
So now I just wait. I've asked the Lord repeatedly for patience and peace in this time. There is nothing else for me to do but wait on the Lord to reveal His plan to me. That's not an easy thing to do. Thankfully I have other tasks to be completed and keep my mind off of this matter, but obviously sleeping is a bigger issue here. By the end of the day you'll probably find me passed out on my keyboard at about eight o'clock attempting to finish my seven page paper.
9.28.2011
9.12.2011
Truth in the Word
LOVE
"Having purified your souls by your OBEDIENCE to the TRUTH for a sincere brotherly love, LOVE one another earnestly from a PURE heart..." 1 Peter 1:22
"Little children, let us NOT love in word or talk but in DEED and in TRUTH." 1 John 3:18
"There is NO fear in love, but PERFECT love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment; whoever fears has not been perfected in LOVE. We LOVE because he first LOVED us." 1 John 18-19
VICTORY
"Death is swallowed up in victory."
"O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"
"The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the VICTORY through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 15:55-57
"No, in all things we are more than CONQUERORS through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:37-39
"Let no sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions... But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching which you were committed, and, having been SET FREE from sin, have become slaves of righteousness." Romans 6:12,17-18
"Having purified your souls by your OBEDIENCE to the TRUTH for a sincere brotherly love, LOVE one another earnestly from a PURE heart..." 1 Peter 1:22
"Little children, let us NOT love in word or talk but in DEED and in TRUTH." 1 John 3:18
"There is NO fear in love, but PERFECT love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment; whoever fears has not been perfected in LOVE. We LOVE because he first LOVED us." 1 John 18-19
VICTORY
"Death is swallowed up in victory."
"O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"
"The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the VICTORY through our Lord Jesus Christ." 1 Corinthians 15:55-57
"No, in all things we are more than CONQUERORS through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:37-39
"Let no sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions... But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching which you were committed, and, having been SET FREE from sin, have become slaves of righteousness." Romans 6:12,17-18
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