Walk in the word-post

I couldn't help myself. Dr. James McDonald hit the nail on it's head about waiting for God's purpose in you in his wisdom for your walk. I want to share you the post from Walk in the word.

"The Benefits of Waiting

The Weekly Walk

"I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord." - Psalms 40:1–3

The longer I live, the more I come to understand that life doesn't have a lot of green lights. There are hardly any times where God is like, "Do you want that? Have it right now. Why didn't you ask sooner?" More often God is like, "I'd like you to wait."

"No! I want it right now!"

God is like, "Listen! You might think you want it now, but I'm going to give it to you when you're fit to receive it. I'm going to use the process of waiting to shape you into the woman or the man that I want you to be. Getting it now wouldn't advance My purposes for you. I want you to wait."

Waiting is not an easy thing. Waiting is not passivity. Waiting on God is not the absence of efforts. Waiting is "I've done everything I know how to do but it's not enough and now I am waiting on God to do for me what I could not do for myself."

That is such an important lesson to learn. Let me tell you about some of the benefits that you get when you wait on God. Here are five verses that spell them out.

* According to Psalm 40:1 when we wait on God, He hears our prayers: "I waited patiently for the Lord and He inclined to me and heard my cry."
* According to Isaiah 64:4 when we wait on God, He acts on our behalf: "Nor has the eye seen a God like You who acts on behalf of those who wait for Him." That's what God is fired up about. He works for the people who wait. I wonder how many things we don't get because we're out there working for it ourselves beyond what we should and God's like, "Would you just stop that? I act on behalf of the people who wait for Me."
* Psalm 25:3 says that when we wait on God, He keeps us from shame: "Indeed none of those who wait for You O God will be ashamed."
* Isaiah 40:31 says that He gives strength to those who wait: "Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength."
* Psalm 37:34 tells us that those who wait for God are exalted: "Wait for the Lord and He will exalt you."

Bottom line; God always makes it worth our while to wait for Him:!
-From Walk in the word website (http://www.walkintheword.com/WeeklyWalk.aspx).

Unexpected gifts

Not many of you know, but we currently ran into some unexpected financial situations. Which end up leaving our savings account dry (and me panicking). Our transmission went on our car, our mixer died, our can opener died, and December (dec 30, 2008 to be exact) is the month that I had my 1st m/c AND our 2nd child would have been due in December (dec 26, 2009). So December is just a mess for me.
I wrote a message on my IF board asking for prayer and was shocked when I receive a package in the mail a few days after wards. It end up being from a lady on my form who sent us a can opener. I was complete shocked that someone (who didn't even meet me)would send me such a gift. She even included a note that said she was thinking of us and even though the can opener wasn't much, she hoped that it help. What a blessing!!
Our second unexpected gift was from a family friend. Unknown to him about our financial situation, we were not planning on getting a tree this year. He called my mother in law and said that he wanted to know if her sons wanted to get these 3 Christmas trees out of his lawn (I guess he saw them as a nuisance to have). My mother in law, in turn, called me. I was so ecstatic about it. I told her our situation and that we would LOVE to take a tree.
It just amazes me that God would still shine his light in our darkest of worlds. The gift of giving. It's a blessing. Thank you Jesus for being our giver and being a light in our world.

12 Days of Christmas

Here is a remix of my version of the 12 Days of Christmas:


On the 1st day of Christmas my true love gave to me, a Boston Terrier name Skipper.

On the 2nd day of Christmas my true love gave to me, two snoring dogs.

On the 3rd day of Christmas my true love gave to me, three plans for meals.

On the 4th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, four cups of coffee.

On the 5th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, A TRIP TO FIVE GUYS!

On the 6th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, six pairs of socks.

On the 7th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, seven shiny ornaments.

On the 8th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, eight items on my to do list.

On the 9th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, nine loads of laundry.

On the 10th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, ten pieces of mail.

On the 11th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, eleven students dancing.

On the 12th day of Christmas my true love gave to me, tweleve (to be continue)

Just my thoughts...

Waiting is hard. I'm the first one to admit, that I'm not a very patience person (I wish I was). It's hard waiting for God's will and plan to unfold in my life. I wish that I can take God's remote control on me and fast forward to the nice and full- filling parts. You know, the oh yes..this is the top of the mountain view. That's what I'm talking about sayings. I don't like to stay here in the valley and take the long way up this very windy mountain. I don't like the your not ready to be here on the top just yet. I wonder sometime, why does God does take me the long way around the mountain. Why can't he just fast forward that remote and make things all better. Why do I have to experience this pain and trails of this life?
It makes you wonder. But, I am thankful for his promises, blessings, encouragement. I just wish right now that I had more faith right now.