Hello everyone! I've haven't been on here for awhile so it's good to be back! I hope all of you had a wonderful Christmas season! I know I did, simply because I was able to spend it with family...and of course the love of my life. I didn't get to see my daughter, but I held her close in my heart.
Can you believe we have already come through another year and it's almost over? Wow! Seems it's went by so quickly! As I've shared with you before, my Mother told me last Thanksgiving, before she went on to Heaven, that 2011 was the year of Jubilee, and it truely has been! God has taught us some hard lessons, but he's brought us through so much! My husband accepted the call to preach this year, God has kept him in a job, God healed my heart this year when I had a heart attack in Feb, and the list just goes on and on! I lost my mother last Dec, so this year has been a struggle with that, because I miss her so much, but God has helped me with that. Then this year for Christmas, we had Christmas with my husband's family a week before, then this past weekend we went to Myrtle Beach, SC, where my brother and his family live, and my daddy came up from Alabama, and we had a good Christmas there!
So here we are now, at the close of another year..2011...
I have been praying and asking God what I need to do different in 2012. My daddy says that he does not make New Year's resolutions because when you do, you end up not following through on any of them, so he says he just tries to live every day, better than the day before. Pretty good advice. So this year, I'm not making New Year resolutions, but I have prayed and sought God on some things. This morning, as I was praying, God spoke to my heart and said...2012 is to be a year of "Doing". God said..."It's time to stop talking about what we are "going" to do, and start "doing" it!! We can have all the good intentions in the world, but unless we put those plans into motion, then that's all it is...just talk. This week, I have been looking back over the year, going over all the things I've done, and said, how I've conducted myself, how much I have prayed, (or have not prayed), how much I've read my Bible, how much I have truely sought God for things, what kind of witness I've been to those around me, how I've treated people, just reviewing my life.... and this year, I want to obey God and actually "DO" the things I need to do, and not just talk about them. Good intentions will usually get you nowhere.
Have you looked back on your life this year, and realized there are some things you need to be doing? Is there something maybe you've been wanting to do, or needing to do, but you have just put it off and put it off because you either didn't have the time, or just figured you'd get to it later...and later never came? We are not promised tomorrow. I learned that last year. I never had any idea that Thanksgiving would be the last holiday I would have my mother to spend it with...I'm so thankful I was able to be with her on Thanksgiving, and then I was able to be there when she left this life and took Jesus's hand into her new life! I have been down alot this year because of so much that has went on, and I'm thankful that God has brought me through, but I believe....no... I KNOW, that God has a plan for us! If we will be willing to follow his will for our lives, then we will be right where we are suppose to be. I firmly believe that!
This next year will be like no other year for me and David! We are starting this new ministry, I am going to be working on a book I feel God is leading me to write, I have some other writing to finish, we feel God is leading us in all kinds of new directions...and I want this to be my year of "Getting It Done"!!
Come on guys.... let's go into this new year with a brand new attitude, a new outlook on life, a new determination, the confidence to know we can accomplish things! I know I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength! I want 2012 to be my year of being a "Do-er"!
Now will I still miss my mother? Of course, and there will be times that I feel that emptiness in my heart, but I know I'll see her again. But she used to tell me "I have faith in you! You can do anything you set your mind to." I still remember her telling me that!
If you will take a moment...to reflect back on your life this year....be happy with what you did right....and determine in your heart and mind that you are going to accomplish those things (that you never got around to this year), in 2012...then stop talking about it and start doing it.....then I believe we will have a great year!!!!!
I'm ready!!!!!!! Are you???
Happy New Year everyone!!! Let's give it all we've got...and most of all, let's give God all we've got....and he will bless us!!!
2012....Stop Talking About It....and Start Doing It
Can you believe we have already come through another year and it's almost over? Wow! Seems it's went by so quickly! As I've shared with you before, my Mother told me last Thanksgiving, before she went on to Heaven, that 2011 was the year of Jubilee, and it truely has been! God has taught us some hard lessons, but he's brought us through so much! My husband accepted the call to preach this year, God has kept him in a job, God healed my heart this year when I had a heart attack in Feb, and the list just goes on and on! I lost my mother last Dec, so this year has been a struggle with that, because I miss her so much, but God has helped me with that. Then this year for Christmas, we had Christmas with my husband's family a week before, then this past weekend we went to Myrtle Beach, SC, where my brother and his family live, and my daddy came up from Alabama, and we had a good Christmas there!
So here we are now, at the close of another year..2011...
I have been praying and asking God what I need to do different in 2012. My daddy says that he does not make New Year's resolutions because when you do, you end up not following through on any of them, so he says he just tries to live every day, better than the day before. Pretty good advice. So this year, I'm not making New Year resolutions, but I have prayed and sought God on some things. This morning, as I was praying, God spoke to my heart and said...2012 is to be a year of "Doing". God said..."It's time to stop talking about what we are "going" to do, and start "doing" it!! We can have all the good intentions in the world, but unless we put those plans into motion, then that's all it is...just talk. This week, I have been looking back over the year, going over all the things I've done, and said, how I've conducted myself, how much I have prayed, (or have not prayed), how much I've read my Bible, how much I have truely sought God for things, what kind of witness I've been to those around me, how I've treated people, just reviewing my life.... and this year, I want to obey God and actually "DO" the things I need to do, and not just talk about them. Good intentions will usually get you nowhere.
Have you looked back on your life this year, and realized there are some things you need to be doing? Is there something maybe you've been wanting to do, or needing to do, but you have just put it off and put it off because you either didn't have the time, or just figured you'd get to it later...and later never came? We are not promised tomorrow. I learned that last year. I never had any idea that Thanksgiving would be the last holiday I would have my mother to spend it with...I'm so thankful I was able to be with her on Thanksgiving, and then I was able to be there when she left this life and took Jesus's hand into her new life! I have been down alot this year because of so much that has went on, and I'm thankful that God has brought me through, but I believe....no... I KNOW, that God has a plan for us! If we will be willing to follow his will for our lives, then we will be right where we are suppose to be. I firmly believe that!
This next year will be like no other year for me and David! We are starting this new ministry, I am going to be working on a book I feel God is leading me to write, I have some other writing to finish, we feel God is leading us in all kinds of new directions...and I want this to be my year of "Getting It Done"!!
Come on guys.... let's go into this new year with a brand new attitude, a new outlook on life, a new determination, the confidence to know we can accomplish things! I know I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength! I want 2012 to be my year of being a "Do-er"!
Now will I still miss my mother? Of course, and there will be times that I feel that emptiness in my heart, but I know I'll see her again. But she used to tell me "I have faith in you! You can do anything you set your mind to." I still remember her telling me that!
If you will take a moment...to reflect back on your life this year....be happy with what you did right....and determine in your heart and mind that you are going to accomplish those things (that you never got around to this year), in 2012...then stop talking about it and start doing it.....then I believe we will have a great year!!!!!
I'm ready!!!!!!! Are you???
Happy New Year everyone!!! Let's give it all we've got...and most of all, let's give God all we've got....and he will bless us!!!
2012....Stop Talking About It....and Start Doing It
