Made to Last Forever

Our time on earth prepares us for eternity. Heaven we will be with God and have unbroken fellowship with him. We think it is so unfair when someone dies of an accident or illness or anything we some how believe that people should live forever: God planted that seed within us. If our focus in heaven is going to be all about God then we should learn to focus worship and love him more now.

Point to ponder: There is more to life then just the here and now.

Verse to remember: This world is fading away, along with everything it craves. But if you do the will of God you will live forever. 1John2:17

Question to consider: Since I was made to last forever, what is one thing I should stop doing and one thing I should start doing today?

Well I might as well of use last night as my example: I was tired and wanted love and attention and no more kids climbing all over mom. So I told Stephen I wanted to go where the queens go. Sharona was trying to figure out where could this be, has she been there before? Stephen would say something about black and white cows. We got close and Caleb says the ice cream place, Sharona say Dairy Queen. I wasn't craving food I was wanting to be loved. Then we came home and I was too tired to watch Jurastic Park. I went to bed.

I need to stop fill up my body when I need some love I need to go to God rather then my husband, he can only do so much. God's love is much greater and even more satisfying. I need to start running to God more frequently and stay in his arms of love daily.

What Drives You?

Many people are driven by guilt
Many people are driven by resentment and anger
Many people are driven by fear
Many people are driven by materialism
Many people are driven by the need for approval

I believe I am driven by the need for approval I have always stayed close to what ever values and beliefs my parents have. It was really hard to cut the apron strings because my husband would say so little about what he thought and I wanted to have the approval of someone. It was a big thing to move to Saskatoon and be more distant from all they had to say. I was on my own before that but I knew this would be more permanent. Even now when my dad has an opinion I really don't disagree, at least not in the same room. And one time I did speak up and he actually called me stupid for not wanting to watch more videos on why evolution is wrong and creation.


The Benefits of Purpose Driven Living?

Knowing your purpose gives meaning to your life

Knowing your purpose simplifies your life

Knowing your purpose focuses your life

Knowing your purpose motivates your life

Knowing your purpose prepares you for eternity


Point to ponder: Living on purpose is the path to peace
Verse to remember: You Lord give perfect peace to those who keep their purpose firm and put their trust in you Isaiah 26:3

Question to consider: What would my family and friends say is the driving force of my life? What do I want it to be?

I believe that people would see my children as the thing that drives me: I do things for my children with my children and I am striving to be better mom. My interest in health and nursing drives me to study and research in this area. My belief in God keeps me true to his word.

I want to be driven by passion and compassion for others: I want to love like God loves them. I want to be driven by worship that I am so in love with God that he can speak loud and clear.

YESTURDAY'S YO-YOS

Don't get me wrong: I know what I am supposed to think about the way he created me. In the beginning of the Bible when God created the heavens and the earth and things he had made, he said it was good. Now God doesn't change so he created me to be good as well. Why don't I get this? The painful way I feel about my appearance, as described yesturday is contrasted by the way God thinks. How can I think like God thinks?

THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE

Our life group is starting to study the "Purpose Driven Life" by Rick Warren. I just happen to of been given the book, a couple years ealier. I am choosing to study this book for the forty days, that is required to read this book one chapter at a time, I am good at starting things but I need to learn the endurance part of studing till the end, forty days was signicicant in the Bible for many spiritual purposes. Can all you friends who are reading this blog help me stay committed to sticking this out so that I may encounter God in a new and amazing way as I discover what his purpose for me is.
The first week is : What on earth am I here for?
A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump, a God shaped life is a flourishing tree. Proverbs 11:28
Blessed are those who trust in the Lord... they are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green and they go right on producing delicious fruit.Jeremiah17:7-8

IT ALL STARTS WITH GOD

For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible...everything got started with him and finds it purpose in him . Colossians 1:16

Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our lifes purpose. An inventer is a creator who makes things, with a purpose, if saw something new you may have your own ideas of what it could be. Without asking the inventor we wouldn't know his disires for the things he created. We need to ask the creator to help us understand what we were made for.

I knew Josiah was going on a field trip to the hospital for the carnival, he forgot something. He forgot his medic alert bracelet, this particular item was designed so that if he was lost, it would speak for him. There is a phone number is a 24 hour service if he is found they could phone me and tell me where Josiah was. If he doesn't wear it and he gets lost, there is no purpose in even having this item, He needs to wear it in order for it to help him. I ran this item to the school just in case, something happened. Today everything went well.

Everyday I decide whose team I am on, I can put on my own selfish identy or the God like identy in my heart. If I want purpose I need God. I need to remind myself that my identy doesn't come from how I look, how successful I am, how funny I am, what my kids or my husband thinks about me. Again I remind myself that It all starts with..................JESUS CHRIST, MY SAVIOR, MY REDEAMER, AND MY LOVER. My life started with him and my purpose comes from him. Lord help me find purpose in YOU.

I AM NOT AN ACCIDENT
I am your Creator, you were in my care before you were born. Isaiah 44:2a

He loves me as if there were only one of me, one person on the earth to love. He really really loves me and I can't imagine, how much, and what is this kind of love is really like. Sometimes I think I do but I know I don't. I was loved by him before I was created, and then he created me out of love.

Question to ponder

I know that God uniquely created me. What areas of mypersonality, background and phsical appearance am I stuggling to accept? I feel fat and unsexy, I don't think my husband thinks I am beautiful, he never tells me that I am beautiful or sexy. Am I really that ugly? One of my children thinks I have ugly hair, I heard it once lately. The doctor tells me I am fat and need to loose weight and then I am given pills that make it harder to control my appitite and fat gain is easier then loss. I want to exercise but it really hasn't showen me results. So I feel frusterated and give up. Then God says he created me this way, does he really love me, fat and all. Why would God create ugly people? Or do I have this all wrong.

How can I accept who I am? What God think beauty is? How can I think the way God really thinks? So I have lots to think about and many purposes to find. God help me to believe I am not an accident and I am beautiful to him I think.

Be Thou my Vision

I am without glasses and this is really difficult to see anything. You can't realize how difficult it is to see until you are without your glasses. When Josiah's glasses were broken I wanted him to go to school, his prescription is way worse then mine. Being without glasses really does make it more difficult to think to balance and everything. I need Christ to be my strenght during this time, I feel headaches at times, I really need his strenght. It should help me see better the doctor gave me a higher prescription, he said I would be able to drive better at night, ha ha.

In a spiritual sense, even though I know God, I have a blurred sense of where to go when I am without my time with God. I want to have a break from the light when my eyes are getting unclear signals. I have taken to many breaks from spending time with God. I need to find my way. Thy word is a lamp unto my path, when I put the word as a priority, and meditate on it I am getting vision in the direction that I want to move, then I will not stumble and fall. And the Lord becomes the Lord of all.

I need to take more medicaton I am now back up to 20 ml of prednizone and 150 ml of immuran and all the other pills. I am frusterated that I am not healed completly although I realize that I have been healed along the way I no longer need a liver transplant anytime soon. And only God can do that.

Last summer was really crazy I need wisdom and strength to do and see things the way God would like me do to things. I do believe that we would like to do homeschooling and have family devotions I haven't found a devotional that will work yet. Although we have started the schooling for some days where Stephen is working and we need some work to keep their minds and hands busy. May the Lord give me strenght and vision for the summ

The Answer

Remember the exercise question: How many minutes of exercise do I need to do to loose weight? 200 to 300 minutes of exercise is required to do it the healthy way. I still have to figure out the plan of how I am going to do this.

Help is on its way

We are going to be getting a new thing called "results" it is suppose to hydrate the eggs so they are easier to comb out. I will tell you more later.