My YES Moments!

This morning, God woke me up to a pressing desire to go to His Word. I love it when He is my alarm clock. So, I got up, and went. What a blessing it was!!!

I have been leading a ladies Precept Bible Study group through Revelation. This is an amazing group of ladies that God has put together. We have been studying together, some as long as 4 plus years. We have studied the Pentateuch, Daniel, Nehemiah, Judges, Covenant...and the list goes on. We study, pray, cry, laugh and praise God together. God has both blessed me and lavished His love on me by calling me to lead this group. I absolutely adore these ladies.

I cannot tell you what a blessing it is to do what God calls you to do, or not do :)
I love that He has given me passion and a desire to study and love His Word. It is my inhale! I am breathing in the very breath of God. It is a feeling that I cannot be without.

He is giving me six months to really focus on what He wants me to do. Homeschooling is my first and foremost calling. He is showing me in ways I can understand that I am right where I am supposed to be on this :)

 He also knows my passion for His Word and the overwhelming desire to show others, including my own kids, how to study it for themselves and discover on their own the precepts that God wants for them!!  So amazing to see the lightbulb go off! GOD IS GOOD!! I love to hear the sound of "oh, I get it"!! Makes my heart sing!! Understanding and applying the Truth!!! YES!!!

He brought me to Precept Leading in a way only He could, 5 years ago!! Since then, He has allowed me to use it at home, at church with our kiddos, and in this ladies group. I have been blessed to see Him call other leaders out of the core group that started years ago. I have watched it grow!! YES LORD! THANK YOU!!

This fall, I know where God wants me with our kiddos at Calvary. What a gift this is.
Homeschooling will be my first ministry! I am so excited about it...at the same time He has shown me that He wants me to carry on with Precept Leading. He has shown me a way to put it all together without filling up my plate. YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT A GIFT THIS IS TO ME!! A huge answer to prayer for me and my family!

Did I mention my passion for teaching others to study God's Word? GLORY!! Learning the Truth and living in the light of it!! YES!

I am so glad that He loves me enough to take the time to show my hard headed self what He wants for me and for my family! I am pumped!!!! Will tell you more...soon.

Have a fantastic day in the LORD...take the time to let Him breathe His Word into you!!!

"Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of the heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever." Daniel 12:3

Broken-Rejoicing Heart

Wow! Where did April go?? It seems to have come and gone in a flash!

April was a hard month for my family and at the same time a month of rejoicing.
The hard part was a change in my family. Something that seemed to rip my heart out, and at the same time this "ripping" was going on, my son was preparing to ask his girlfriend to marry him. So, I didn't know what to do with my heart that seemed divided by both sadness and joy. Broken and rejoicing at the same time. HOW??

God showed me, yet again, in ways I can understand, that He's got this. My El Roi sees everything that my family is going through, both good and bad,  and is right there with us.

                                                     However,

Satan does not want me to remember this, he wants to cause me to be blinded by the hurt of the bad and stay that way so I can miss the joy of blessing and deliverance.

My youngest daughter and I have been reading "A Wrinkle in Time" together. The chapter we just read was kind of eye opening to me. In this chapter, Meg, the daughter could see her father but he could not see her. He was surrounded by darkness, that "IT" had covered him with. He was just about ready to give up when Meg showed up and gave him the glasses of Mrs. Who and could see again. (there is more detail in the book)

I am not sure if you have read this book or what you think of it, but the "IT" was evil and wanted all to just conform and be happily comfortable and he promised all would be well.  WRONG! "IT" was a liar and a deceiver and a destroyer.  The character of "IT"was portrayed as a huge brain at the center of this world that the main characters found themselves in. This brain was causing people to heed to the lies and false hope. Conformity!! Missing TRUTH!

As I read it, I began to mull it over in my head to explain it to my daughter. I realized that satan loves to work in my thought process, my brain! He tries to place thoughts that are not pleasing to God right in the middle of my thinking. These are not thoughts of lustful or of blatent sinful things, but subtle thoughts of just giving in. Just bask in the sorrow and self pity! NO WAY! 

My God does not want me to focus so much on the painful things that I miss the joy of who I am in Him. He loves me and knows what I am dealing with. HE SEES ME and HE SEES YOU! He knows that satan wants to capture our thoughts and focus and our God knows it is a war. GLORY TO GOD, WE KNOW WHO WINS!!! AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My prayer is that I continue, by God's grace and mercy, to "take every though captive to the LORD",  until the day my Jesus comes for me.

Praying the same for you!

By the way, my son's girlfriend said "YES"!! What a testimony of purity they have!

saying goodbye to April to say hello and welcome to May :)
Hoping you have a wonderful May in our LORD!