Tuesday, September 28, 2010
My Creator King - Don Moen
Blessed be the God and Father Our lord Jesus Christ, who hath blssed us with all spiritual blessingsin heavenly places in Christ. Ephesians 1:3 (KJV)
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
God is My GPS
I want to tell you a little bit about me. I was a young pregnant teen, still lived at home with my mom,who is also a Christian. When I got pregnant i was so scared, I told my mom and she talked to me and she said that we would get through this together and abortion was not even an option, I didnt even know what it was and my mom didnt even bring it up. I was so blessed. I had my daughter and my mom help me take care of her. I praise the Lord for my mom.
Well when I had her I was 16,and so I lived with my mom til I was 18 and then I met a man who I thought was just it, I told my mom we was going to move out and I was going to live with this man and we was going to get married.Needless to say I did just that and I found out that he was "just it" something that i didnt want but after 7 years of marriage and 3 babies later, we divorced. It never even crossed my mind to ask God what He wanted for my life, I was just the tipical young adult and thought I knew it all.
Well needless to say I didnt know anything.So I divoreced my husband who didnt love me and we didnt have a real marriage, it was married on paper but not in our house, another words he had better things to do than to put up with me and the kids so, again not seeking God first I contiued to make more foolish decisons, I cheated on my husband with one of his friends who was showing me all the attention that my husband had lacked showing me.
It was just a short time after my divorce was final, I was married again, yes, I was so foolish. I was in and out of church but I didnt read my Bible and I wasnt making God my leader or my guidance. I got saved at a very young age and I knew and believed in God but neither of my husbands wasnt the leader called had called him to be so our house hold wasnt doing what God expected a family to do. So another 7 years went my and the marriage failed again. This time I decided to stay single, I was done with marriage. I had been hurt enough, i had been lied to, cheated on abused metally and physically by both of my previous hsbands and I put my girls through so much,so I stayed single and focused on my job and what I wanted to do, still not thinking about what Gods plans are for me.
I started working at a nursing home in another city close to ours and the first night I walked in my whole changed the second i stepped in the door.
There he was, a very handsome man who I had worked with 5 years prior to this night at another nursing home, I didnt even know he knew my name, we had talked and said hi a little before, but when I walked in our eyes met and we both said hello and the very next night he had changed his schedule to the overnight shift so we could work togehter.Then 3 weeks later I was married again!!! I thought wow what happend to me,but there was just something different about this man. So we got married and I started going to church with him and short time later I rededicated my life to the Lord. Wow, how my life has changed,I now have a wonderful husband,of 8 wonderful years of marriage, that I know, is a gift from God. God has used this man to change me to focus on God and to make God my GPS and Lord of my life.I went through something in my life very traumatizing after Stephen and I married, (not nothing Stephen had done) but sometihng that happend while I was married to my ex but was brought up 3 years later, but I know that if God had not sent Stephen to be in my life and use him to bring me back to focus on God then I would not be here today.
I am so blessed to have an awesome husband and wonderful mother and siblings and a strong family that God has given me.We have the best life
we could ever ask for here on earth. We are not rich financially but thats fine with me, because we are rich in Jesus Christ and now that He is my GPS and living in my heart, I will not go the wrong way, I am on a straight way to heaven!
We are in a very awesome church,with a loving Chrisitan family so Im extra blessed.The church God led us too also has a program I had never heard of before,its called "Celebrate Recovery", i took that class and God used that to free me from all my past hurts. My husband loves me, he comforts me when I need him, he wipes my tears when I cry and he is a true husband and a gift from God.
This is the verse that God placed in my life when that stuff happend:
"I say this because I know what I am planning for you,"says the Lord.
"I have good plans for you, not plans to hurt you. I will give you hope and a good future. Then will you call on my name. You will come to me and pray to me, I will listen to you. you will search me, and when you search me with all your heart you will find me!I will let you find me, says the Lord, i will bring you back from your captivity. Jeremiah 29:11~14a.(NCV)
God knew all that stuff was going to happen to me,God had a plan for me and my life, He had sent me a person to help go through this with me and get me focused on God because he knew what was fixing to happen to me.
When i started seeking God and gave my life back to him, my whole life changed, I now have an awesome husband, we are very involved in the deaf ministry of our church and he has blessed us with so many things like you would never believe but thats another story! I know from experince that when Jesus Christ comes into your life and you let God be your GPS, your life will make a u-turn and you will be going toward heaven instead of hell~
Thank you for taking the time to read. I pray that if you dont know Jesus or if you have not been living the Christian life that you promised God you would live dont wait till its to late, we are never promised tomorrow, we have to live for today! May God bless and touch each heart that reads this and it all be for Gods glory and honor in Jesus name AMEN.
Well when I had her I was 16,and so I lived with my mom til I was 18 and then I met a man who I thought was just it, I told my mom we was going to move out and I was going to live with this man and we was going to get married.Needless to say I did just that and I found out that he was "just it" something that i didnt want but after 7 years of marriage and 3 babies later, we divorced. It never even crossed my mind to ask God what He wanted for my life, I was just the tipical young adult and thought I knew it all.
Well needless to say I didnt know anything.So I divoreced my husband who didnt love me and we didnt have a real marriage, it was married on paper but not in our house, another words he had better things to do than to put up with me and the kids so, again not seeking God first I contiued to make more foolish decisons, I cheated on my husband with one of his friends who was showing me all the attention that my husband had lacked showing me.
It was just a short time after my divorce was final, I was married again, yes, I was so foolish. I was in and out of church but I didnt read my Bible and I wasnt making God my leader or my guidance. I got saved at a very young age and I knew and believed in God but neither of my husbands wasnt the leader called had called him to be so our house hold wasnt doing what God expected a family to do. So another 7 years went my and the marriage failed again. This time I decided to stay single, I was done with marriage. I had been hurt enough, i had been lied to, cheated on abused metally and physically by both of my previous hsbands and I put my girls through so much,so I stayed single and focused on my job and what I wanted to do, still not thinking about what Gods plans are for me.
I started working at a nursing home in another city close to ours and the first night I walked in my whole changed the second i stepped in the door.
There he was, a very handsome man who I had worked with 5 years prior to this night at another nursing home, I didnt even know he knew my name, we had talked and said hi a little before, but when I walked in our eyes met and we both said hello and the very next night he had changed his schedule to the overnight shift so we could work togehter.Then 3 weeks later I was married again!!! I thought wow what happend to me,but there was just something different about this man. So we got married and I started going to church with him and short time later I rededicated my life to the Lord. Wow, how my life has changed,I now have a wonderful husband,of 8 wonderful years of marriage, that I know, is a gift from God. God has used this man to change me to focus on God and to make God my GPS and Lord of my life.I went through something in my life very traumatizing after Stephen and I married, (not nothing Stephen had done) but sometihng that happend while I was married to my ex but was brought up 3 years later, but I know that if God had not sent Stephen to be in my life and use him to bring me back to focus on God then I would not be here today.
I am so blessed to have an awesome husband and wonderful mother and siblings and a strong family that God has given me.We have the best life
we could ever ask for here on earth. We are not rich financially but thats fine with me, because we are rich in Jesus Christ and now that He is my GPS and living in my heart, I will not go the wrong way, I am on a straight way to heaven!
We are in a very awesome church,with a loving Chrisitan family so Im extra blessed.The church God led us too also has a program I had never heard of before,its called "Celebrate Recovery", i took that class and God used that to free me from all my past hurts. My husband loves me, he comforts me when I need him, he wipes my tears when I cry and he is a true husband and a gift from God.
This is the verse that God placed in my life when that stuff happend:
"I say this because I know what I am planning for you,"says the Lord.
"I have good plans for you, not plans to hurt you. I will give you hope and a good future. Then will you call on my name. You will come to me and pray to me, I will listen to you. you will search me, and when you search me with all your heart you will find me!I will let you find me, says the Lord, i will bring you back from your captivity. Jeremiah 29:11~14a.(NCV)
God knew all that stuff was going to happen to me,God had a plan for me and my life, He had sent me a person to help go through this with me and get me focused on God because he knew what was fixing to happen to me.
When i started seeking God and gave my life back to him, my whole life changed, I now have an awesome husband, we are very involved in the deaf ministry of our church and he has blessed us with so many things like you would never believe but thats another story! I know from experince that when Jesus Christ comes into your life and you let God be your GPS, your life will make a u-turn and you will be going toward heaven instead of hell~
Thank you for taking the time to read. I pray that if you dont know Jesus or if you have not been living the Christian life that you promised God you would live dont wait till its to late, we are never promised tomorrow, we have to live for today! May God bless and touch each heart that reads this and it all be for Gods glory and honor in Jesus name AMEN.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Intimacy with God
I am alone right now where I live, everyone that lives with me is gone somewhere else, I want to take this time I am alone and just focus on God and not have the busy life of having to go here and there. I want to get deeper into God, I have a relationship with God but I want more than that. I want to get into His word and seek Him more and hear His voice, oh when you feel in your heart you need to do something, you better do it cause if you are a Christian, thats the Holy Spirit talking to you and that God guiding you into His path and his directions.
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want,He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside the still waters, He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righousness for His name sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for you are with me, your rod and staff comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.Psalm 23 (NIV)
Wow, how that Chapter of the Bible sooths my soul, that is just one out of many in Gods word,I want to break this down, The Lord is my shepherd,I shall not want~ man look at that, I have the Lord in my heart, I shall not want for anything... He is promising me He will provide for me, I will not need anything but Him.Then it says He makes me lie down in green pastures and leads me beside the still waters, who doesnt like to sit by a body of water and relax, I know that is one of the most calming things for me, not only to sit there and watch it but to imagine that the God who created that also created me and wants to have a realtionship with me, a sinner, wow!
He guides me in the paths of righousness, that means i dont have to know which road to take or what choices to make because God is going to lead me, thats so awesome, I dont like having to make choices and I dont because I just have faith in God and trust Him and HE will lead me~ This just floods my heart and gives me so much peace, lets continue; Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, why because when I die I will go to heaven if Jesus is in my heart and even on earth, when darkness comes, He will be the light that gets us through because He says He is with me and He will comfort me, most of the time when darkness comes in our lives we dont even search God we just try to go through it alone and we dont have to He is there to protect us.
Then it tells us that He will anoint my head with oil and my cup overflows,
HE can heal anything that your body is going through or that your heart is going through and He dont just heal it He conquers it, He will show up and show out! Then the end it says surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the houe of the Lord forever, well I dont want it to just follow me I want it to be in me and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever, yes here on earth I will go to church but thats not what its talking about, its talking about that God has made a promise that if I have Jesus Christ as my Savior, I am a child of His and He has went before me in heaven and prepared a place for me, John 14:2 says,In my Fathers house are many many rooms ; if it were not so I would have told you.I ( Jesus) am going there
and prepare a place for you.And if I go and prepapre a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am, you know the way to the place where I am going. Here He is telling me Because Jesus is my Savior, God is my daddy, that when I die that I have a place in heaven,it already has my name on the door, I will not have to burn in a living hell because of all my sins, Jesus paid the price for me and Jesus, (if I dont pass on fist) is coming back to get me, He is coming to take me back to heaven to be with Him, to dwell in the house of the Lord forever!! This is not my words, this is the words of God right out of the Bible, I pray that you know Jesus, and He lives in your heart. This is so overwhelming to me, not in a bad way but a good way and I am excited about the day I get to see Jesus face to face and I get to hold His nail scared hands where spikes were put through them and went through so much pain so I could live with Him for ever! Do you have a friend or even a loved one that would go through pain so that you could be free? Jesus did it for me and He did it for you too!
Thank you for taking the time to read this, I pray for each person that reads my blogs,that you are saved, if not ask Jesus to come live in your heart and let Him Savior of your life, and if you are already that awesome but I pray that God fills you with His never ending grace, today and always.
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want,He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside the still waters, He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righousness for His name sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for you are with me, your rod and staff comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and i will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.Psalm 23 (NIV)
Wow, how that Chapter of the Bible sooths my soul, that is just one out of many in Gods word,I want to break this down, The Lord is my shepherd,I shall not want~ man look at that, I have the Lord in my heart, I shall not want for anything... He is promising me He will provide for me, I will not need anything but Him.Then it says He makes me lie down in green pastures and leads me beside the still waters, who doesnt like to sit by a body of water and relax, I know that is one of the most calming things for me, not only to sit there and watch it but to imagine that the God who created that also created me and wants to have a realtionship with me, a sinner, wow!
He guides me in the paths of righousness, that means i dont have to know which road to take or what choices to make because God is going to lead me, thats so awesome, I dont like having to make choices and I dont because I just have faith in God and trust Him and HE will lead me~ This just floods my heart and gives me so much peace, lets continue; Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, why because when I die I will go to heaven if Jesus is in my heart and even on earth, when darkness comes, He will be the light that gets us through because He says He is with me and He will comfort me, most of the time when darkness comes in our lives we dont even search God we just try to go through it alone and we dont have to He is there to protect us.
Then it tells us that He will anoint my head with oil and my cup overflows,
HE can heal anything that your body is going through or that your heart is going through and He dont just heal it He conquers it, He will show up and show out! Then the end it says surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life and I will dwell in the houe of the Lord forever, well I dont want it to just follow me I want it to be in me and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever, yes here on earth I will go to church but thats not what its talking about, its talking about that God has made a promise that if I have Jesus Christ as my Savior, I am a child of His and He has went before me in heaven and prepared a place for me, John 14:2 says,In my Fathers house are many many rooms ; if it were not so I would have told you.I ( Jesus) am going there
and prepare a place for you.And if I go and prepapre a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am, you know the way to the place where I am going. Here He is telling me Because Jesus is my Savior, God is my daddy, that when I die that I have a place in heaven,it already has my name on the door, I will not have to burn in a living hell because of all my sins, Jesus paid the price for me and Jesus, (if I dont pass on fist) is coming back to get me, He is coming to take me back to heaven to be with Him, to dwell in the house of the Lord forever!! This is not my words, this is the words of God right out of the Bible, I pray that you know Jesus, and He lives in your heart. This is so overwhelming to me, not in a bad way but a good way and I am excited about the day I get to see Jesus face to face and I get to hold His nail scared hands where spikes were put through them and went through so much pain so I could live with Him for ever! Do you have a friend or even a loved one that would go through pain so that you could be free? Jesus did it for me and He did it for you too!
Thank you for taking the time to read this, I pray for each person that reads my blogs,that you are saved, if not ask Jesus to come live in your heart and let Him Savior of your life, and if you are already that awesome but I pray that God fills you with His never ending grace, today and always.
What if Its God Speaking?
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Without Words
Without words is my dream of my life. I have a desire to learn and get a certification on ASL.It has always been my desire every since i was little to learn sign language.
I was attending a church in the small town I grew up in, DeFuniak Springs, Florida and they started a sign language class, i thought ok heres my chance so my husband and I started going to the classes, one of the instructors was a deaf man by the name of David Hoffman. Shortly after they started the class the people stopped coming so they stopped the class just as fast as they started it,that broke my heart but, then we became very good friends with David and he started coming over to visit, and at first we would use paper and pen then he started taking it from us and would teach us the signs for whatever we would talk about.We did a lot of finger spelling then he would show us the sign for that.
I had also had a heart for music so I wanted to put the two together and I started teaching myself the different signs for the words to songs.
He told us about a church he attended over in Chipley, Florida named Shiloh and shorlty after that God moved us to a small town called Westville and we searched for a church but couldnt find one so we prayed about it, not having a lot of money for gas, we decied to go to this church and they had a deaf ministry there. I really felt God calling me to learn sign and become an interpeter for the deaf.
So we started going to Shiloh Baptist Church and became a big part of the deaf ministry there. My husband later felt the same calling, which did not suprise me at all since God made my husband for me, why not give us the same intrest right.Shortly after we started going there and they started a basic asl class that teaches about deaf culture and the alphabet.I learned here that the way I was signing songs wasnt really wrong but the deaf would not get alot of what I was saying because in deaf culture you have to fix the sentence so that they will understand it because they are not taught like a hearing person is.It is completly different.so then I was taught by some very dear friends that taught the basic asl class we attended, how to sign songs, so now again i start teaching myself and with their help also I start interpeting at this church. Shortly after that my husband did also.Also my husband and i would go to stores or out to eat and one of us or both of us would pretend to be deaf and help each other to learn signs.:)
We were at Shiloh about a year. We made some very dear friends, but then God gave us an opportunity to move to Decatur,Al. to look for jobs and to help my sister out.
So again here we go church searching again, we didnt have to look far though we found an awesome church, God lead us to and yes they have a deaf ministry. Here we are another year and 1/2 later learning new signs all the time, but making new friends and communitcating with the deaf and they understand what we say!! It is also a different place sio now they have different signs for the same word, its like having different accents for hearing people. Wow, God is so awesome and yes now we are starting to inteperpet here during some of the services and on holidays like the Christmas program and the Easter programs.We are so involved and we love it. I am looking to cointue to further my education in ASL and help the deaf in any way I can. Thank you for taking the time to read "Without Words".I would like to thank one of my sisters for encouraging me to write this and I just want to say God doesnt think anyone is a failure, go after your dreams and reach for the stars.
Thank you, Tracy Huntington
I was attending a church in the small town I grew up in, DeFuniak Springs, Florida and they started a sign language class, i thought ok heres my chance so my husband and I started going to the classes, one of the instructors was a deaf man by the name of David Hoffman. Shortly after they started the class the people stopped coming so they stopped the class just as fast as they started it,that broke my heart but, then we became very good friends with David and he started coming over to visit, and at first we would use paper and pen then he started taking it from us and would teach us the signs for whatever we would talk about.We did a lot of finger spelling then he would show us the sign for that.
I had also had a heart for music so I wanted to put the two together and I started teaching myself the different signs for the words to songs.
He told us about a church he attended over in Chipley, Florida named Shiloh and shorlty after that God moved us to a small town called Westville and we searched for a church but couldnt find one so we prayed about it, not having a lot of money for gas, we decied to go to this church and they had a deaf ministry there. I really felt God calling me to learn sign and become an interpeter for the deaf.
So we started going to Shiloh Baptist Church and became a big part of the deaf ministry there. My husband later felt the same calling, which did not suprise me at all since God made my husband for me, why not give us the same intrest right.Shortly after we started going there and they started a basic asl class that teaches about deaf culture and the alphabet.I learned here that the way I was signing songs wasnt really wrong but the deaf would not get alot of what I was saying because in deaf culture you have to fix the sentence so that they will understand it because they are not taught like a hearing person is.It is completly different.so then I was taught by some very dear friends that taught the basic asl class we attended, how to sign songs, so now again i start teaching myself and with their help also I start interpeting at this church. Shortly after that my husband did also.Also my husband and i would go to stores or out to eat and one of us or both of us would pretend to be deaf and help each other to learn signs.:)
We were at Shiloh about a year. We made some very dear friends, but then God gave us an opportunity to move to Decatur,Al. to look for jobs and to help my sister out.
So again here we go church searching again, we didnt have to look far though we found an awesome church, God lead us to and yes they have a deaf ministry. Here we are another year and 1/2 later learning new signs all the time, but making new friends and communitcating with the deaf and they understand what we say!! It is also a different place sio now they have different signs for the same word, its like having different accents for hearing people. Wow, God is so awesome and yes now we are starting to inteperpet here during some of the services and on holidays like the Christmas program and the Easter programs.We are so involved and we love it. I am looking to cointue to further my education in ASL and help the deaf in any way I can. Thank you for taking the time to read "Without Words".I would like to thank one of my sisters for encouraging me to write this and I just want to say God doesnt think anyone is a failure, go after your dreams and reach for the stars.
Thank you, Tracy Huntington
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010
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