Hey Readers!
Praise the Lord for always being only one step away and his everlasting mercy and grace! The past week he has shown me so much, even if I did feel so far away he reached down and said "let me help you back up....look......."
Early last week I got with a friend of mine had a great day doing what we love to do and really got into some deep conversations and confessing things to each other that really let me see how much God uses others to show me I'm not alone in my walk and no matter what he still loves me and he never stopped he never moved away...I did. The other day something so small like I went into the hair shop to make an appointment for my hair for the wedding and the lady says shes in the back..... I look over the little wall and shes sitting on her break or lunch reading her bible! What a witness and that really touched me and made me ask myself "wow Miranda you used to love to study and learn and you've gotten so far back that you haven't even picked up your bible except for Sundays and you close it and don't even bother to open it again until the following or even the Sunday after that" What an inspiration! God used her in such a little way that she may not even know God used both of these girls this week to really show me how many steps I really am away from him and how much we really need other christians in our life to help us in our everyday walk.
Bryan and I have started attending a new church (City Soul Ministries) and we both really enjoy it. I love getting up on Sunday mornings now going to be fed Gods word and realizing how much I miss being on fire and how many people I could touch with my stories if I were as excited about God as much as I was the day he came into my heart and made me new. Well I guess I'm hoping that's what this blog will do. I may be able to touch more people through this blog than I ever could in real life. I'm hoping not only for this blog to be my vent of things I go through but I'm hoping I use it for myself as an accountability that it will get me back into the word of God. So I can share what God does in my life and because when I was so deep in study so long ago he really did bring verses to mind as a way to talk to me and I could use them in the situtaion I was in, also because they say sometimes WE are the only bibles people will ever read.
I went to borders yesterday and picked up a new book by Max Lucado and his daughter its called You Were Made To Make A Difference. I'm only on chapter 2 but wow! Some of you may know and some of you may not know that Ive always felt a tug toward missions and I've always of course felt a tug to adopt. I want God to use me to make a difference and like the book says look at the most important men and women of the bible the ones that made such a difference like the disciples they were just ordinary men and women, they weren't rich, they weren't nessecarily the most handsome or beautiful, they weren't even the smartest they were people like me and you. All though I don't feel called to sell everything and go to the misson field, I do feel called to make a difference. Ive realized God can use me to make a difference in the smallest ways like being the girl on my break to read my bible (incredible witness) or even the shoulder to cry on, God can use me as a smile that brightens someones day, and God can even use my confessions to help a friend. I want to make a difference in a child's life through adoption it may not happen today or even tomorrow but I'm praying he will show my what his will is for me and if this is where he really wants to take me and this is really what he wants me to do he will show me, and I pray that I can say that its his will and not mine and (like in church Sunday) when you ask for something ask in complete and total FAITH that he will answer your prayers. "If you want to know what God really wants you to do, ask him , and he will gladly tell you, for he is always ready to give a bountiful supply of wisdom to all who ask him; be sure that you really expect him to tell you...If you don't ask in faith, don't expect the Lord to give you any solid answer." James 1:5-6 Sometimes I'm so guilty of going to him and praying and not really expecting an answer. So today I pray that I will ask him to show me his will for me in faith and he will really show me.
Well today is my last day off work (Ive been off work for 3 weeks because my appendix decided to not like me) so i'm gonna be done blogging for the evening and get ready to go to bed, so until next time.....
"Trust in the lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge HIM, and he will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3:5-6
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