The Wilderness Season.

Have you ever been in that season of life that you doubt everything you ever believed in??
Maybe it was in friendships, business, religion or family but something you have put all your trust in has failed you and it has put you into a personal crisis? It is at this point that you are in the wilderness wondering where God is not seeing him for all the trees, and needing to hear his voice yet the voices of fear, bitterness and anger are so loud it is hard to hear and then you wondered did I ever hear his voice??? When we find ourselves here it is hard to talk about or discuss because of that lack of trust or fear that those around you will think you have totally lost it which you probably agree and just walk away feeling the hurt going even deeper.

It is in those season that I know God is calling our names and asking us to go deeper with him. Wanting us to hold on through the wilderness so that we do not get lost and know that once again that focus, refreshment and deep passion will once again fill us. It is in the wilderness that we will find his provision and guidance once again, calling out to him in desperation for our spiritual lives knowing that he is our only Saviour and maybe that is why we are here in this place to begin with, to remember him, to find humility, grace and a 1st love that we had lost.

I am doing the Priscilla Shirer study "One in a Million" This study has provided the scripture and focus that I need right now and reminds me that God is with me and with us during these times in our life that life is just too hard to live without his consent love and presence in our lives. He has provided me through this Bible Study with the scriptures that I need, the Holy Spirit every morning reminds of me of how great God's love is for me and how faithful his provision.

Exodus 15: 22-25, 27
Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea and they went into the Desert of Shur. For three days they traveled in the desert without finding water. When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. So the people grumbled against Moses, saying, "What are we to drink." Then Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a piece of wood. He threw it into the water, and the water became sweet.
Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water.

Thank You God for your faithfulness and your patience as we go through the wildernesses of life, you are my King.

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Am I not enough????

The Israelites prayed and prayed for freedom and when they received it, they complained!? This freedom involved plagues, leaving at midnight, facing the Red Sea, seeing the Red Sea part and the miracles just continued over a life time, yet where was the gratitude? Where was the love? Only two of them made it into the promise land.

In life if you are like me you pray, prayers are answered but there is always another prayer that seems to be ignored. Daily you see miracles and receive them yet in the next sentence complain because something else didn't turn out right and the miracle, well it is already yesterday's news. My kids remind me daily that I am not fair and that the world is not fair; this is no surprise as I could have told them the world is not fair I have been living it almost 40 years and I want to see them just try to raise 4 boys (fairly on a daily basis, not a chance, but the funny thing is, it is always fair when it favors them)!!! But with all this said is God enough? If life isn't fair, if things go wrong, if miracles loose their pop, is God enough????

Will you remain faithful???

Is God enough? Is his son's death on the cross enough to offset the dog days on this earth that just want to destroy our faith in him? Does the love of the cross allow us to praise when praise is not on our lips? Does the love of the cross allow us to love when love is not in our hearts? Does the cross sustain us during the hard and dry seasons of our lives, when life is just not fair?

Oh, how I pray that the cross is enough in my life and that he will find me faithful. Jesus has to be enough or peace, love and forgiveness will always be one bad day, one self pity trip, one unaswered prayer away. May the love of Jesus and his sacrifice on the cross be enough to sustain this life for you and for me until we meet him.

Psalms 118:24, This is the day that the LORD has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Your love is amazing LORD! I praise you!
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The Common Man

The common man, I find myself as one most days. Exemplifying the traits of a rat race mom, in a mad world trying to get more done in one day than a man can achieve in a year. With all of this said I sit down for my morning devotions, during prayers and reading the Word wondering why my heart feels so distant, so empty needing to be filled up once again. Why??? Why does it get so empty so fast???

I found myself in James 4 this morning and in those words we are instructed,
verse 4, You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes a enemy of God. Verse 7 Submit yourselves then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands you sinners and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Verse 10, Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

Loving the world, friendship with the world?? Submit to God, flee the devil??? Double-minded and humble??? In this fast pace life as the day goes from morning to night, it is hard to see when the transition happens but somewhere between the phone calls, errands and kids, loving the world becomes easier, double-minded becomes a way of life and I forget who my King is, who my Savior is and this world eats me alive from my heart to my mind to my spirit.

Today I will live for Jesus I pray that Jesus will find me faithful throughout this whole day and that from head to toe, heart to mind and hands I will glorify HIM.

Lord help me to remain faithful to love with your heart, to be passionate with your eyes, to listen with your ears and to know that you are God. I know that you are Alive, Active and in love with me. I pray that my life and all my sisters and brothers in Christ will be focused on you, help us to stay focus on you within our life of choas and strife of weariness and sometimes lonilness Holy Spirit grow within us so that we will not be common man but men worthy of your Name.

I love you Lisa.

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Worship and Enjoy God

Question: What is the chief end of man? Answer: Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. -New England Primer In the Pursuit of God by AW Tozer

"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created". Revelation 4:11

I have been reading the Pursuit of God as I have been facing hurt, disappointment and a crisis of faith that ask, "What am I doing?" As I read these words this morning my spirit was reminded that all I am to do is worship God, and enjoy Him FOREVER. But how often do I ENJOY God??
Like a child to a mother or father so often we take them for granted and most of our negative, abusive attitudes are acted out towards them. Today in prayer I left refreshed as I spent it concentrating on worshiping and glorifying God and remembering that it is about Him and them not me.

One day in Heaven my life will be filled with perfect worship and I believe that we will implusively fall to our knees in enjoyment and pleasure of his love and the eternal life that he has for us but today we are distracted, weighed down and worn out it takes (at least for me) intentionally focusing on worship and joy of the Lord. Not just prayer or reading the Word but intentional worship and joy.

John the Baptist understood as he told those that asked him, "I must decrease so he can increase".

May God draw you to the throne of worship and joy as he allows his presence to surround you and may his glory shine through your life. - Lisa

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Coincidence I think NOT

I was in our outreach meeting at church the other night and testimonies were being shared about what visit keeps you coming back?!......

As I sat there and listened it was said over and over again, "it seems coincidental", "that this and that would happen and we would end up at a person's door that really needed"..................

Coincidence I think NOT!

So as our group went out we had the assignment to give a family a gift card and we began praying. I was excited because I had taken my 8 year old Conley with us and he was designated group leader. (He thought that was pretty cool!) As we drove around town no one was jumping out at us, so I told the group leader to get praying, we needed some guidance. So we pulled over and asked a gentleman doing yard work if he knew a family that needed some help??? The gentleman turned out to be a PASTOR! And he knew a family right away that was in need of help so we ZOOMED over ready to give this card out. What we found was a family stunned to get this gift as we asked to pray with him, his wife came out, you could tell she had been crying and she began to tell us that she was just sitting on the kitchen floor, crying and asking God for some help. COINCIDENCE I think NOT!!!

Praise God, oh how he hears our prayers, the women's for help, Conley's for guidance and mine to teach my son what it is to serve each other in Jesus. It is such a great privilege to serve one another. I think the word coincidence really needs to be taken out of the Christians vocabulary because my God has it all planned out. PRAISE HIM!!!

Psalms 116:1-2, I love the Lord because he hears my prayers and answers them. Because he bends down and listens, I will pray as long as I breathe!

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In the calm of the storm

Take Shelter!!!!!!!! As the storms hit on Friday in Harrisburg it gave a new meaning to wind. They have clocked the winds in the surrounding areas at 106mph, needless to say Harrisburg has made out on the whole storm as we are the only town that has power this weekend, the hotels are full, and the restaurants are packed (that is a act of God, except during deer season)! I was working at the bank Friday and they were preparing us to take shelter in the vault, I knew that it was probably the safest place in town at that point but my kids, my husband??? I was starting to get worried! As the first storm went through I just sat and prayed for couraged as I am trying to count back money all at the same time (I couldn't believe the people out in the storm doing banking???? CRAZY, I am like do you FEEL your car rocking back and forth????) and this verse that I had just taught on Tuesday and Wednesday came to mind, Mark 4: 41, " Why are you afraid, do you still have no faith?" I thought about the disciples on their boat in the middle of the lake with that huge storm waking, they are waking Jesus up because they are scared to death of the winds, well that is how I felt Friday. The verse became the living word as it spoke peace to me during the storm, as the winds blew through town and the cell phones went dead, the lights blinking and cars rocking I held on tight to that verse, praying that God would get us all through this storm safely. That night as I went to bed I thanked God for all my children being home safe and sound, and a bed to sleep in that night with electricity pumping through our house.

The day was full of excitement and I knew that God showed up not only in the wind and rain but in the calm of the storm.

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Adopted in Christ

As you can imagine Monday was rough day at our house the excitement of prom has ended and everyone wanted to sleep in, I did too! Now that life has returned to normal, last night I find my family in my mom and dad's front yard shaking up soda cans and shooting them with a BB gun. I told Kirk "we have finally arrived in Harrisburg Illinois!" What a site I just sat there and enjoyed watching the boys fight over the gun and talk big stuff only to have Sterling's girlfriend out shoot them all.

But onto the Word, we are no longer orphans in this world. Romans 8:16-17 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs-heirs of God and co-heirs of Christ, if we share in his suffereings in order that we may also share in his glory. We have been adopted by God I don't know if we truly understand the significance of these words unless we have been without family. We have a friend of Sterling that has been living with us, Awesome, Awesome man. Last night we were talking and it came up that he doesn't know if his mom will come to his graduation, he doesn't even know where she lives now. What do you say to that??? How does a child deal without a mom?? But we are children without a Father until we say yes to Jesus, how do others survive without the love and care of him?? How do you breathe, have hope and guidance. I know that I take this relationship for granted in my life, I have forgotten what it is like to be a orphan, living without him in this world. Thank you Jesus that even when we have no mom or dad in this world you come in and occupy that spot and so much more, you allow peace, forgiveness and hope. PRAISE YOU!

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