Saturday, June 27, 2009

PHEW!! God gave me strength!!!

thank you GOD. you are seriously amazing. you are the BEST father anyone can ever have and ask for.

you gave me strength to get me through this crazy week. i love you. the way you love me is ridiculous and i don't deserve any of it, but i appreciate all of it.

the resonate launch party was a success. all the hard work was well worth it. as you have said, nothing you do for the Lord is useless...nothing...

keep blessing the leaders of new hope and leaders around this world Father. let us save as many of your children so they too can experience such love and joy and peace that the devil tries to steal away. but Jesus came and overcame the devil. He rose from the dead! what a sacrifice you gave us...

Lord, i pray for wisdom, patience, understanding and obedience in my walk. i just want others to know who they really belong to. thank you Father...for EVERYthing...

in Jesus' name,

amen.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Just Woke Up....SQUIRREL!

oops!

i did it again....

got lost in the sheets...and slept through the da-a-ayyyyyy.

haha. b/c i stayed up all night last night doing the stuff i was doing, i only had an hour sleep to get me through the day. tues nights is the women's ministry and i really wanted to stay up b/c we were gonna celebrate two of our sister's birfdays. unfortunately i passed out and it's 12:22am. i woke up just a tad too late. a TAD!'

i feel really bad, ESPECIALLY since this was a special day today and i'm trying to keep my focus on God and his promises for me. i wasn't up all night dilly-dallying, but doing His work.

tomorrow is my "day off" from helping my mom and it's gonna be another jam packed to the rim full of activities day. this friday is the RESONATE LAUNCH PART-AYYY! i was cutting fabric squares all day at the store and soon i gotta start making the favors. when it gets nuttzzz like this and my social life suffers there's two verses that encourage me:

1. "work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the LORD rather than for people. remember that the LORD will give you an inheritance as your reward, and that the master you are serving is Christ." --Col. 3:23,24

2. "be strong and steady, always enthusiastic about the Lord's work, for you know that nothing you do for the LORD is ever useless." --1 Cor. 15:58

i love God. He surely knows how to comfort us with his Words and Promises.

today's devo i got: "teach those who are rich in this world not to be proud & not to trust their money, which is so unreliable. their trust should be in God, who richly gives us all we need for our enjoyment." --1 tim 5:17

ain't that so true? money is the TOP thing that replaces God. it's so easy to feel security from it, but we need to remember...MONEY IS JUST A PIECE OF PAPER. its value was given by mere humans. get some ink, put a number on a piece of rectangle paper and SMACk! you have an idol that many worship. lameeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. i fell into that trap too.

but you know what? i'm also learning that God wants to BLESS his children with not only riches in heaven, but riches on earth too. if we change our hearts and seek to spend money/our resources (which ultimately belongs to Him) to further his kingdom, He will bless us more abundantly than we could ever imagine.

and that my friends, is the TRUTH.

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

FIRST BLOG EVER!!! mommy, wow.....

sooo....i opened up a blog account. something i thought i would never do because i'm a pretty private person and i don't like everyone knowing a lot about me, but i felt like it was a necessary thing to do as an aid for my journey with God.

it's 3:49 am. through Him, i accomplished so much in the last 4 hours than i did the whole day. God really does inspire me and motivate me b/c if i did it on my own human strength, trust me, nothing would get done. when i was a baby, my mom said she had to wake me up just to feed me. yah, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

i filled out some of the form for pac-rim, completed my support letter (volume 1), and finished some stuff up for pursuit.

i'm tired but not tired. CHA KNOW?!

-=o)))))) love you all,

*jackie

p.s today i experienced chest pains. when i first woke up it was so bad that i didn't wanna move so i took a nap. when i awoke later in the afternoon, i didn't wanna waste the day, so through god strength, i drove to pac rim to get the app form and talk to my friend cammie. through prayer and rest, my chest pains are completely healed! thank you God!