God is Moving!!!

This is the year that I am stepping out in faith....

     and trusting in God to do big things - 

      IMPOSSIBLE things...

Things that only a big God can do....

I'm amazed so far with how quickly God has moved and answered 

       requests that have made to him...

My stepdaughter had a baby in August.... they need money... she wants to stay home with

   the baby... she has been offered a job to nanny where she can work and

      also be with her daughter ..

     now this may not seem like much - but where she lives those kind of jobs

         do not come along every day!!!!

A friend  was struggling in her marriage and separated... this went up in prayer for God to 

     work in what seemed like an impossible situation...

      just got word the other day that they are back together and things

         are great!!

Another friend has suffered from digestive issues...this was sent up in prayer by numerous

      people....  she is now not having an issues at all!!!

I can't wait to see what else God is going to do this year...

     All it takes is faith...

       and I have faith....

     that my God is a big God...

     and that nothing....nothing on this earth

      is IMPOSSIBLE for him.

Are you with me??    Are you ready to step out in faith  and see what God can do??  

   Let's stop talking about our faith...let's show people 

        just how real it is... 

           and just how big our God is.

White as Snow

Today we had blizzard conditions here.. at the end of the day we had enough snow to make the number 5 all time slot for snow accumulations... whooo  hooo... 

  

It's amazing that we started with dead, dirty ground... and once the snow started covering everything, it just so clean and amazingly white... it was beautiful to be out in the midst of the falling snow...

This is what God's grace does for us... it falls on us like snow...

     covers the dirt...

        covers what is dead....

  

    and makes it white and beautiful so that he can look upon us.

Today I am grateful for that grace.

Lord, just cleanse me with your grace...let it fall on me like snow... 

      little by little covering the sin in my life...

        that isnt very pretty...

May I be amazing white and clean as the snow you've created.  

Wrong Reflections

"I'm so unhappy with myself"...
      "I wish I could look like I did before I had kids".....
    "I look old"...

Sound familiar??  These are just a few of the comments that you can find on Facebook...
   there are many more where these came from...

I used to think I was alone.. hating the "dreaded" mirror...
   looking in and never liking what was staring back at me...

I have figured out the problem - it's not us - it's the mirror!!!
   we keep using "worldly" mirrors to view ourselves in..
     and we will never like what we see in those...

It's not the outside that matters... God doesn't judge us from
      how we look on the outside.. he judges us by
        what is on the inside...

Proverbs 11:20

The Lord detests those whose hearts are perverse, but he delights in those whose ways are blameless.

No where here does it say that God judges our outer appearance.. he 

    is more concerned about our hearts...

       and you can't see that in a mirror...

When we look in the mirror we are judging ourselves by the world..

      how we look.. and the sad thing about that is the world

          is based on false standards.

Models who are airbrushed and photoshopped.... most of what we 

    think we see isn't real... more lies of the devil...

It's time we started using the Word of God as our mirror... 

    to judge how our inner appearance is looking...

          and less on  how our outer appearance is looking... 

The mirrors of the world will never satisfy us.. I used to think I was fat

   even when I weighed 105 pounds.. we reach for goals that 

      will never make us happy... 

I have met some beautiful people who have very ugly hearts.. it 

     makes them totally ugly all around.. I have met some very

        plain people who have beautiful insides that make them

                attractive...

Don't be fooled by mirrors.. they don't reflect the truth...they just

     reflect the world... it's time for you...

           to get a new mirror.

God is Moving!!

To start out the New Year I put a challenge out on my Facebook page
    to my other christian friends...
I challenged us to let this be the year we step out in faith....
     to bring God the impossible and see him move..

It's been hard to get people to come along and get excited...
  we have already had one prayer request answered!!
I'm so excited that God seems to be saying that I am on the
     right page.. heading the right way...

It's winter time here in Rhode Island.. so my photography business is slow..
  I take this time to finish back up discs and clear photos from
    last year...
I look at the photos from the previous year and I am reminded
   of all that God can do in our lives.. and how each day is a gift..
I have had two people pass away that were in weddings I did last year...
   we never know what God has planned...

This is why we need to get excited now!!!!
   There may not be a tomorrow...
So many people are posting on Facebook about great deals at stores...
      photos of new cars... photos of their children...
 so why are we so quiet when it comes to our faith???

As christians, we should be excited everyday!!!  Our God is a BIG GOD!!!!
    A living God... nothing is impossible for him!!!

Yet... we complain to others.. on media sites.... and never seek God out in prayer for our "impossible" requests...

I want to step out in faith this year.. I want to live what I believe.. and I believe that God can do anything...anywhere... in anyone...
 
          I"m going to keep praying... and watching...
                   and see what happens...

God has only begun to move.... this world is in for some change.

Getting Excited

I want to get excited about God this year ..

  not just little excited...

    but a LOT excited.

New car excited...new shoes excited..new job excited...

How often do you come across an excited christian??  

   not too often... and what a shame..

God is not boring... he's not dead

  he is living and breathing and moving...

and we should be excited about that.

I want to be excited and I want others to get excited with me...

  I want people who don't know Jesus to see

    something exciting that maybe they are missing...

If Jesus is the most important thing in my life..then I should be excited about

    that and want to share that with others...

I do think I've been failing with the excitement part... 

   and I'm not sure why...

I've spent quite a bit of time last year being excited for others when they

    have had great  blessings... 

so I'm not sure why each day I just cannot be that 

    excited about my God...

I should be...

  I want to be....

      I will be ...

This is my mission.... 

   come  join me...

Let's get excited about God together....

New Year...Big God

Today is New Years day...
      a new, fresh year.

I'm excited this year to see what God is going to do in the world, and
     in people's lives -
       most of all in my life....

My goal is less of me and more of him.

I want to be more aware of others around me
    and more aware of how to help others..
I'm sure that I fail each day with opportunities
   that God has sent my way-
     just because I was too busy or blind to see them.

So this year I want to do more, love more and see more...
   God is a BIG God, so I know that if I let him
     move in me... I can help him move in others.

I started today... I went to Walmart to get some bird food..
   in the parking lot I saw that someone had
    place two shopping carts right in back of someones car...
I almost walked past and into the store - BUT
   this is the year I want to have my eyes open.

I wouldn't be too happy to come out of the store and find
      two carts to move from behind my car so I
         could get out...
So I moved the carts...

I know..not a big deal in this big world...
   but for someone who won't even know..
    maybe this made their day a little easier.

I went into to the store feeling a little bigger...
   a little more ready to love...
    a little more ready to give...
    and a little more ready to serve my God this year.

He's going to move Big through me.. and through you... and this world
    will slowly be changed.... because God doesn't
      stay still..he doesn't give up...
      and neither will I.