Prayer Room Chronicles

 

I’ve been slacking. I have tried to write on this blog once or twice, and honestly it was a bit difficult. I have been in this weird funk recently, that seems to have lasted quite a long time. And I honestly think, I just have some healing to do, and some reflecting to do on the past year or two. Change and business have affected me more than I ever could have thought. And not just me, but my relationship with Christ as well.

So I’m excited to say that I’m ready for a bit of a weekly schedule break. To not have as much going on, and to especially have my wednesdays where I just spend an hour dedicated to prayer and talking to God about all that is heavy in my heart and hopefully even realize and have more clarity on what is even going on in there!

So today has been a rather productive day actually, with work, with prayer and time with Christ, and with blogging, and getting a letter done, and hopefully weeding tonight before going to record more of my cd! This makes me happy, because I feel like I’ve been unproductive for the past few weeks! So Praise God!

God is good and is always moving, always at work. Ive been reminded that sometimes, we just have to be looking out for Him!
  Be thou my vision, LORD!

 

VERSE OF THE DAY:
”Oh taste and see that the LORD is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!” Psalm 34:8

Surprise!!!!

 

oops, uploaded a couple days late!

 

I’m not one to enjoy surprises. I love surprising others…but I really dont like being surprised.

But tonight, God surprised me! I had my night planned, and to be honest I was in a rather weird mood, a pretty down mood and just wanted my Jesus time in the coffee shop to just sit and read and pray and journal all the heaviness on my heart away.
But that wasnt what God had in mind! Instead, he worked it so that i would spend time hanging out with people I rarely ever hang out with or see for that matter for a while. and then ran into another friend at the coffee shop and had a quick catch up chat!
   I guess that is exactly what I needed….sometimes I just need fellowship with people that I don’t get to see often. That is sometimes just the remedy you need, and who God will use greatly to lift your spirits. Just sharing life and laughing together. I love it.

I’m feeling very blessed and very loved right now. Which I needed that. Because let’s face it, I’m extremely hard on myself. so getting together with some different people is quite a relief for me a lot of times.
Thank You God!
I love that you surprise me. I love that you know exactly what I need. I love that you pay attention to me and don’t want me to stay in a weird funky mood. I love that you want me to feel loved and to know and believe that I am loved and found in You and no one or nothing else!

THANK YOU MY KING!

 

Verse of the Day:
”Rejoice in the Lord always, again I will say, Rejoice.”
Philippians 4:4

reminiscing

 

I love God’s Sovereignty and how He knits people together.
Tonight as I’m sitting in a coffee shop, supposed to be working on quite a few different papers….but I guess God has other plans as Natasha and I keep distracting each other and just chat away. Reminiscing on the people we know, and how God has knit us and others together and worked in different relationships.
   It just blows me away that God is so Sovereign and that He knows the people we need in our lives, consistently and every now and then. and how even when people are not consistent in our lives, the bond that can be made is incredible. And the memories are life-long!

This just makes me happy, and love Jesus so much more!

 

VERSE OF THE DAY:
”Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.”
Ephesians 6:10-11

Thank You God for Saving Me

 

Yesterday during church all of a sudden this realization hit me…
  If I were to die right now, at this age, in this season of life, I would be completely content with that, simply because I’ve known the Love of God.

Some of y0u probably know that this past year has been a rough year in many different areas, but one of those areas has been singleness. Ive struggled with it like never before, and its probably due to a lot of my friends getting married, therefore I hang around couples on a regular basis, as well for females entering into their mid 20’s…..its just not fun!
But i realized, as much as I desire to have a husband in the future, or right now, I’m completely content. I’m not living for that desire. I’m living for my desire for God. and if I were to die without ever knowing the bond and love of a husband….THATS OKAY! I’ve known the love of God, I have the love of God which is enough for me!

Your love, O LORD, is enough for me.
I hope and pray that the love of God is enough for you too. and if your not at that point, that you will get to that point. because God is faithful, and is jealous for you. no matter your gender, your history, your story, your hurt…He is jealous for you!

 

P.S.
(this is not a morbid post, but a Praise post, because I’m grateful for the love of my LORD!)

 

VERSE OF THE DAY:
”and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised.”
2 Corinthians 5:15

lets keep things simple

 

I’m extremely grateful that Christ is ever present with me. That I always know that the Holy Spirit is with me, and I can talk to Him whenever, worship Him whenever, see Him working constantly….

I just want more of Jesus, and the great thing is, I can have more of Him! Because He is always with me, whispering to me, wooing me, I just tend to block Him out unfortunately more than I want to.

“Keep your life free from the love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake  you.” Hebrews 13:5

be encouraged

 

This morning Ive been spending time with Jesus, and through some things that I’ve been reading…I just want to share them on here. So this will just be random and sporatic. I’m not going to put my own thoughts in them, I’m just going to quote them and hope and pray that the words minister to you like they do to me.

 

“..that there be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If on member suffers, all suffer together, if one member is honored, all rejoice together.” 1 Corinthians 12:25-26

“Diversity leads to disunity when the members compete with one another, but diversity leads to unity when the members care for one another.” Warren Wiersbe

“Diversity does not suggest inferiority.” Warren Wiersbe

“Love is patient and kind, love does not envy or boast, it is not arrogant or rude, it does not insist on its own way, it is no irritable or resentful…Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends…”
1 Corinthians 13:4-8

“Love is enduring and what it produces will endure.” Warren Wiersbe

“…strive to excel in building up the church.” 1 Corinthians 14:12

“…let all things be done for building up.” 1 Corinthians 14:26

“For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star in glory. So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.” 1 Corinthians 15:39-42

“It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is a spiritual body.” 1 Corinthians 15:43-44

“Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”
1 Corinthians 15:58

“Let all that you do be done in love.” 1 Corinthians 16:14

Sing It Out

 

“And I’m falling on my knees, offering all of me, Jesus your all this heart is longing for…”

Sometimes, I sing so that I can believe. So that my heart can look to Jesus and say that He is all I need, and that He is all that I am longing for, because when I’m not singing, when I’m not praying, when I’m not reading His word…my heart is longing for other things. And sometimes even in those things that keep me focused on Him, my heart still longs for other things apart from Him. which I don’t think are a bad thing, our desires and longings become a bad thing when we start longing for them more than we long for Jesus.

So i sing, to remind my heart, that Jesus is my ultimate longing over all these other things my heart is looking for in the meantime. Because my heart is an idol factory, constantly looking for something to idolize, to long for, to place in a high position in my mind…but when I sing….I can’t help but look to Jesus. When I pray, I can’t help but look to Jesus. when I read, I can’t help but look to Jesus. when I put others before myself, I can’t help but look to Jesus.

I want my heart to always be longing after Jesus, more than all the other things my heart longs for. because Jesus is the One who will ALWAYS bring satisfaction and worth. His love, is like no other. His grace, we cannot comprehend, but we live in it!
Thank You Jesus!
I love You.

 

VERSE OF THE DAY:
”Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.”
1 Corinthians 10:24