Expectations

I have been thinking about expectations concerning mans expectations of God, who he is, maybe how he should work.  The story of peter is a great picture of this. He went from being a disciple, to denying Jesus  when Jesus  was being taken away to death, to being a powerful preacher. My friend's blog explained this nicely. He expected what this short video (link at bottom) showed and then once those expectations were squished he denied Jesus. But then learned what Jesus was all about when he raised from death and Peter became an amazing preach who reach so many for Christ. So my question is where are you today? What are your expectations of God? Do you feel he's "letting you down" Bc he's not doing the things you think He should do  in your time? Are you expecting him to do things and work in your time frame when he came and died and said himself "it is finished ". He did the job and yes, don't get me wrong I know he can do miracles,I know he can and wants to but are we putting him in our box of time and if he doesn't work, that's it... We are done and like Peter decide to deny him or go on doing our own thing instead? As we can see from the Bible Jesus works in his time and in ways that normally man doesn't think he will or that maybe man can't understand. Man thought the messiah to be some one to save them from the political powers of the day when Jesus wants to save us in a deeper way. He wants to save our hearts, our souls, our eternal selves. It goes deeper than our day to day life. With Jesus He looks at the heart of man and he wants to save him in a deeper way than just this life. Yes God provides, yes God can heal, but how do you react when it seems like he isn't listening? Do you automatically turn your back on him and try to run toward something else or do you keep running to Him even when life is super hard? I knowi am not perfect and I have done this. We all expect things and we all think and pray things and then when things don't happen we get discouraged or down and that is , my friend, called humanity! We are all human! We all feel lonely. We all feel lost at times. We all feel like no one is listening or sees just what you are going through, but God still does. He still cares. He will still be there! He already saved your most precious, valuable thing: your soul/heart! He finds that the most precious thing in existence. Value that gift! Never take that for granted and know that He is still there.  

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Fear of disappointing!

I struggle with a fear. And it manifests it self in many different areas of my life. I think maybe some of you can relate especially if a woman. But I struggle with the fear of disappointing people. Can any of you relate? It isn't easy living life like this and at some point you have to realize that, yes, you are only human and yes you can't make everyone happy. You will disappoint people for various reasons. You can not do it all and sometimes you have to say no. Or sometimes you have to put yourself first. Sometimes you need to recharge. Sometimes your kids need you and sometimes you just need to get alone before God and just be. Life isn't always easy and sometimes others make it hard to. But all we can do is our best in this life. People get upset about little things but sometimes doing what you can is enough. Sometimes killing yourself to make others happy isn't the answer. Priorities need to be set and sometimes it's ok to just say no to something. Sometimes we need to realign life and realign our priorities to match what God is trying to do in our lives. And sometimes we just need to let God do some work and be still before Him! We as woman want to be stubborn and we want to be able to do it all and make everyone around us happy but that isn't always going to work. We are only human and can only do so much. Stop trying to please everyone and start thinking of the one we truly have to please in this life: God! 

I found this pic and I loved it. Lol just something funny for the day ;) have a good day and be blessed!

Its been a long time since writing here. Its been quite a year. Wont get into it all, but I have found a song that describes it well that really touches where I am right now. This is where I am.  I have to say that I have learned a lot. I think that fear and other things clouded my view. I know that right now I am where I need to be. Making the choices that I have recently have been the best thing. I know that God has a purpose and I am ready now! I am ready for Him to finally fulfill these purposes. I know that we are human and we have very real emotions and very real things that we try and hide and we try to run at times. Run from what we know we should be doing. Fear creeps in and we try and turn away and not do what we know we should. I know that God is faithful and will always take us back, but I know that He will keep hinting and keep urging and keep nudging us back to the path that He knows we should be on. It truly is a blessed life of faith. It can be scary and it can get bumpy but God is there to lead us the entire way! I am also working on another project right now as well. I want to start writing more and thinking maybe putting together an eBook. Writing has always been a passion of mine and I think it is time to branch out past my blog and head in that direction to. It is something close to my heart and something that I think needs to be addressed in the church. A subject that people struggle with but don't want to admit they do because maybe they think they shouldn't struggle with this as a Christian. Well, I feel I need to bring it up, address it, and give my insight into the subject. Many might not know I have ever struggled with it, but I am a firm believer that we do go through things so that we can help others who go through things and lift them up, and encourage them as they are going through. So stay tuned for that as well. I wanted to let you know that I am back and that I am going to continue to write here and share things as I start taking on this project that I decided to undertake. I hope that you are all well, I hope you click on that link above and listen and hear my heart! I am also going to post the words below as well. It is a great song, and I have always loved Plumb's music. Be blessed all!!!

Lord I'm Ready Now

Plumb

from the album Need You Now (Deluxe Edition)

I just let go
And I feel exposed
But its so beautiful
Cuz this is who I am
I've been such a mess
But now I can't care less
I could bleed to death

Oh Lord I'm ready now
All the walls are down
Time is running out
And I wanna make this count
I ran away from you
And did what I wanted to
But I don't wanna let you down
Oh Lord I'm ready now
Lord I'm ready now

You called my name
I turned away
But now I
Am listening
I was so caught up
In who I'm not
Can you please forgive me?

I've nothing left to hide
No reason's left to lie
Give me another chance