My Blogging Meanderings

Because I have made my home in blogging about our homeschooling adventures in homeschoolblogger, I have decided to leave my homeschooling adventures there. You can continue to follow our homeschooling adventures at http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/angelswithapurpose

But because I really do love Blogger, I have decided to open up two new blogs here.

One will be about the turn my life has taken into a more simple, natural, healthier lifestyle. You can read about my journey into a more natural lifestyle at http://journeytoamorenaturallifestyle.blogspot.com/

The other will be about my Faith and Spiritual growth at http://simplygrowinginchrist.blogspot.com/

So grab a cup of tea and join me in my blogging meanderings as our lives take all sorts of twists and turns.

Our Homeschooling Journey has begun

I am so sorry, but being that this is our first year homeschooling and as we get used to our homeschool schedule, it is becoming quite difficult to keep two blogs.

I have decided that for now I will only keep one record. You can read about our family's journey through our first year homeschooling at:

www.homeschoolblogger.com/angelswithapurpose

Put Your Trust In the Lord

The Lord has done some truly amazing things in my life the past few months. It is so shocking to me that all I had to do was give Him my whole heart and trust in Him.

His word is the blueprint for how we are to live our lives. When you give yourself completely and entirely to Him asking for His will to be done in your life, through the power of His Holy Spirit, He gives you guidance and direction. There is power in His word. There you will find wisdom and understanding. All you have to do is ask, then as His word states

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find;

knock and the door will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks receives;

he who seeks finds;

and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

Matthew 7:7-8

Let me explain myself. I was saved 5 yrs ago, but immediately fell into religion.Since then my life has been such a roller coaster. Thinking I had to be holier than holy, I had horrible ups and down as I tried to make myself perfect; falling into agonizing depressions which not only hurt me, but also hurt my husband, children, and every relationship the Lord tried to give me. Not knowing how to be a wife and mother and blaming my husband and everyone else, I was ready to walk out on my marriage feeling like a total failure.

Then I cried out to the Lord. Then He showed me, it was loud and clear, He showed me before, but I was walking in the flesh. Having my relationship with the Lord totally controlled by men and depending to feel God only when I went to church or was around the people from church following their rules.

It was so simple. The Lord wanted me to have a personal relationship with Him and He wanted me to quit my job, take care of my home, and homeschool my children. Now this is something He showed me 3 yrs ago when my youngest was born, but my flesh did not understand. I took it to someone at the church I was attending and was immediately taken back to "reallity". I was told the Lord does not work in this manner and if this is what He wanted He would let them know. OK?!?! I put it aside thinking this is what I was wishing for and could not possibly be what the Lord wanted from me. I also thought there was no way we could afford this. This time when He told me He gave me the scripture:

Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Proverb 3:5-6a (KJV)

He gives me the same scripture every day all day as I

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
Philippians 3:13 (NIV)

And now as I follow His word and do as He instructs us:

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:33-34

As I truly apply these words to my daily life. Truly and sincerely following this simple scripture, He has totally changed my desires. I now pray a lot less selfishly. He has shown me the purpose of marriage and family, which in turn has made me more aware of the enemies plan to destroy them, which in turn allows me to intercede through prayer (awesome power in prayer) for marriages and families around the world. This in turn has made my marriage and family so much stronger. Once you take the focus off of yourself and your problems He is true to His word of taking control. You just have to trust Him. Now don't get me wrong, I am not stating you should not pray for yourself and your family or ask for prayer. Just to remember that He is there and knows what is going on. Ask Him to show you through His Spirit what you should be praying for and trust that He will take care of your tomorrows.

My prayer today is merely to thank you Lord. Thank you for being the same God today that you were yesterday and that you will be tomorrow. Thank you for being faithful, when I know I have not and forgive me, O Lord, for my unbelief. In Jesus’ name I thank you giving you all the Praise and all the Glory. Amen.

Humility and Forgiveness

Hi Everyone,

I know I have been neglecting my blog and I appologize. I have a good excuse. I have been spending all my free time with my Lord and Creator.

As I get closer to God I am met with really hard changes in my life. You know the part where you really start to see all the icky parts of your life and in surrendering to God you have to really let go of some things you really do not want to let go of.

For instance, one thing is humility. I really have to humble myself and submit to someone I really do not want to. This is the part where my selfishness comes in and I am only thinking of myself and not seeing the bigger picture. You see, it is not about us, but about Him. I guess this is the part in His Word where He speaks of in Passage Luke 9:23:
23Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

My second problem is forgiveness. You see this person has hurt me. I have forgiven, just to be hurt again. Jesus asks us in His Word to forgive our brothers and sisters. How are we to ask the Lord to forgive us if we can not forgive those who hurt us. Then you ask, "OK, how about if this person has hurt us more than once? Do we still forgive?". In His Passage Matthew 18:21-22:
21Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?"
22Jesus answered, "I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.[a]

You might think, "OK, but you do not understand how much it hurt? How can I forgive someone who hurt me so bad?".

I think of JESUS on the cross, dieing and in pain. His Word states in Passage Luke 23:34:34a Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."[a]

Our Lord knows what we go through daily. When we do not forgive and humble our selves we are just holding ourselves back. Most of the time the person who hurt us does not even remember doing it and you are still holding a grudge and hurting inside. Reach out to our Lord when you know it is something you can not do on your own. Open His Word today and ask for His help. He will never ask for more than what we can handle. Nothing we have to do will ever compare to what Jesus did on the cross for us.

In His Word it states in Passage John 15:11-17:11I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14You are my friends if you do what I command. 15I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 17This is my command: Love each other.