Yeah, yeah, I know it wasn't a very long break. But HOW can I not share all this good stuff? If church weren't so good, I wouldn't have much to blog I am afraid. Ya'll better get it over to CCOTL to see what good is happening there. :) I mean, if you don't have your own home church yet. ;)
So the memory verse was: Philippians 4:6-7
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."
WOW. Ok, so we've all heard this scripture about a billion times but what struck me when this scripture was exhaled into my spirit this time was about how by praying, that our hearts and minds would be guarded! Protected from the enemy...
As women, we know that our minds can be ONE DANGEROUS PLACE. Forget poor Tom Cruise. If someone could visit our brains, they would run screaming into oblivion...our thought life is a MESS! I have recently been endeavoring to spend any conscious thought time in a prayer state instead of a thoughts-wandering-where-they-will state. And by doing that, my heart and my mind are protected! I cannot get easily offended, for I am in the Lord's presence. I am slower to speak my mind (and thereby possibly offend) because I am in the Lord's presence. My heart has a little thicker skin and I literally feel grace flowing out instead of hurt flowing in...because I am in the Lord's presence.
Need your mind and heart guarded? Need some peace? Don't be anxious about things...pray..ask God...be thankful! I learned this little diddy when I was a teen and I have never forgotten it...
My God is able to make all grace abound towards me
that in every situation having all sufficiency
that everything I do might prosper
that I will harvest every seed I sow,
my God is not withholding, he'll meet every need I know!
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I knew I'd be seeing this verse again soon. My mother and a friend of hers came to visit on Friday. I had never met the friend before, but she's been praying for us since Mike got sick in Oct. She was telling me that God is speaking to her to tell me to not be anxious and worried about Mike. She said she always remembers "when in a fix Philippians 4:6.
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