Learning To Dance with my Lord...Focus and Trust

 He teaches me to dance while I stand on His feet like a little girl would with her father. His steps become my steps,

He holds me in a tight embrace and I stay focused on His eyes; I see a cloudy reflection of what is in front of my Lord as He moves us forward.



I focus on His eyes.
The path He is taking me down becomes clearer with each trusting step.
I begin to see the reflection of where He is taking me in His eyes.
I trust my Teacher.


My desire is to remain focused on the eyes of my Lord so my steps are in step with His!

I can't clearly see where I am going yet, but I trust the ONE who is taking me there!

The closer we get to destination the clearer the reflection becomes.


Trusting my Lord to direct our steps to the final destination!


Proverbs 3:5-6


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.


Jeremiah 29:11


For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end

Peru2009 Day 5&6

Peru2009 Day 5 & 6

Today I worked with Sara, ashton beth & anessa on inventory & lunches. Inventory meant sorting through all the donations the team had collected from our community..... Lots of stuff!!!! Praise God!
One thing God keeps showing me is that we need each other. We can only accomplish God size tasks as a team. Not one of us can do this mission ALONE.

I loved watching Anessa & Sara sorting & Beth with her O-mazing organizational skills! Anessa & Beth were so sensitive to the deeper need. They asked questions that led to some changes in how & where the supplies & donations would be stored. It made me realize I am only seeing what is on the surface. I want to be more like them in this area of my life not just with people but also in serving others.

Today’s highlight for me was VBS! We did the Zacheo skit in a new village. When we did our orange relay at the end I had about 50 kids all around me wanting hugs & kisses. My heart was so full at that moment!!! What went through my mind was the scripture God gave me in Isaiah 54: 2&3. At the moment when I looked up and saw more kids than my arms could reach on either side of me this part of verse 3 is what came to my mind, “For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left.” I was surrounded! Farther than my arms could reach!

God you are SOOOO Awesome! Thank you for your abundant blessings!

Day 6

Our last day…. Started out with our quiet time and then our praise time on the beach! Yesterday Sara used her gift of sign language in song to Praise God! It was so deeply moving I was broken again. I just know God was smiling at that moment & God was blessed by her offering of Praise. Today, Friday, she did it again!!!! I could do this every day!!! It was evident that we were in the presence of God! Mike even commented how he literally watched the Ocean waves calm as we joined Sara in Praised to God. Now that is something to talk about!

As we packed our things and prepared to leave I was shocked at my reaction…. As much as I didn’t want this to be over and desired so much to spend more time with the Orphans I was not sad to be leaving. I felt as though I would be returning next year!

Peru2009 Continued....Day 4b

After returning to Hannah's after the Parade we had our lunch and then back to work!!! I got to work on digging another hole for a water pump. During this service project I had the blessing of getting to know Anessa & Ashton! I had such a great time taking turns digging this hole with them and getting to hear their stories. Up until this day I really hadn't got to spend much time with any one to talk to them so it seemed like this day I was talking, sharing my story and hearing others stories all day long....I have to record one more thing from the afternoon that I know is significant to my whole life story.... I had taken a load of dirt to dump it and when I was returning to the dig site, two teens, Ashton & Caleb were chatting & I over heard them. It sounded like they were discussing how hard the work we were doing has been, one said to the other, " Well, it is for Jesus, so we will just keep working on it!" That moment blessed my heart so much, Once again gives me hope for the future generation!  What a great day so far... and we still have the evening ahead of us....!!!

No VBS today... Wednesday night Church... our day's second adventure as if the Parade was not enough! We attended Wednesday evening church services.... I don't know what City we were in, BUT... I do know that I KNOW, GOD was teaching me the same thing in Peru as He had back home. I thought I might fall out of my chair when the guest speaker who was a woman got up and spoke about 'Retrobution'. What was so incredibly awesome about this was that she used the story of Zacchaeus from Luke chapter 19:8-9. This was the same story God had led me to use for our VBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

God continued to pour out His confirmations of His work in my life as the woman continued speaking she moved on to talk about how as aged adults we should be teaching the younger generation how to do good things so they can serve and glorify God. She said that the young ones, Nenos are their future!!! God has also been teaching me this and stirring in my heart to invest in the young women in my life as charged to the aged women in Titus 2:3-5.  WOW... as I recount this day and look at all the events and see in my journal where I note the following statement: "these last two days God has allowed me to get to know the teens on our team & they are EACH so precious!!!!!" God once again confirms this is part of His calling on my life.... INVEST IN THE NEXT GENERATION.........

                        

I am SO thankful God called me to this trip with all of these people! God bless them, may their cup run over, & over & over!!!! Glory to God in the Highest! Amen!

Peru2009 Continued.... Day 4a

Today’s morning quiet time led me to Psalm 94 and verses 1-7 spoke so loud to me it is PACKED with praised to God and encouragement! God allowed me to share this with two others on the team and give back to this team. It was awesome to encourage others! These people have blessed me so much by watching their love for one another. Through the actions of others on the team this week God has brought to my mind a few scriptures:

1Corinthians 8:3 "But if any man love God, the same is known of him."
John 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
This team is really living out these scriptures and it is so incredibly refreshing! Can we live like this every day of our lives? I pray so.

My service opportunity today was helping inventory all the donations our team brought over and not sooner did we get started it was time to get into our ChildReach Team shirts and head to the City's Flag Day Parade! What an awesome privilege and humbling experience. It was so awesome to see our team carrying the American Flag in a parade on foreign soul. The Mayor was very pleased with our presence in the Parade and stated that the Americans were there to help them and we should all help each other. To end he asked us to give our President Obama his best greetings! I thought that was so cool, I felt like we made history that day! I am sure there was a news article in Peru somewhere about that event!!!!

What God thinks of me

As I continue to make my meditation toward God each morning, renewing my relationship with Him and listening for His still small voice my spirit is inspired with words of Truth from the Holy Scriptures.


At times through my life I have had thoughts about myself such as, I am a hypocrite, a liar, fat, ugly, stupid, mean, can not do anything right, keep falling backward, continually make the wrong choice, lazy.... on and on the list goes. I heard someone say one or more of these things about themselves and I immediately thought... God does not think that about you! That made me come the Word, and the Word says the following about God's thoughts toward me:

First of all - He loves me & you -Rom.5: [8] "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

Second- His thoughts are good -Jer.29: [11] "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."

Third- We will have times of weakness but His power is always toward us - 2Cor.13: [4] "For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you." (I have the power...do I believe that?)

Fourth - He thinks of us and loves us as His Child - 1John.3 [2] "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is."


That being said He knows what we shall be....What we shall be is what He thinks about us, so no matter what we think of ourselves, if we could just believe what God thinks of us!

Lord Help us to believe what you say is true for those that have chosen to believe on the name of Jesus and are now the sons of God! (Gal.3:[26] "For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.")

In Jesus Name
Amen
Phil.4:[8] “ Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”

Today's Thoughts continued..

Yesterday morning this thought came to me and really has blown my mind... God sent Jesus to Earth to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:[10] "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.") Jesus suffered and died, was buried & rose again the third day, according to the scriptures (I Corinthians 15:1-4)

Jesus returned to sit at the right hand of God. When Jesus left the Earth we inherited the ministry of preaching the Gospel to the ends of the Earth.... Mark 16: [15] "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."

God has trusted us to carry the same message that He sent His Son here to die for!!!! I am again reminded of just how valuable God views us, even when we do not see ourselves as valuable! God has trusted us to proclaim His message, how often do I choose to proclaim my message and not His?

Today's Thoughts

Constantly I find my self going up and down this mental/emotional rollercoaster of being very confident of my relationship with Christ and no wavering of my God & that He is real and really working all over all the time. Then I find myself wondering if God is real and wandering away from my Jesus… not talking to Him & not reading the Word, then God allows something to come across my path that causes me to KNOW He is who He says He is!

This morning I found myself in that doubting phase again, and believing I have no self worth. God gently reminded me of the value that He placed on my life and the lives of EVERY human in existence, past, present, & future IS so high that it cost God the life of His only Son. That makes EVERYONE’S worth of VERY HIGH PRICE! Can you believe that God values you SO much!

The next time I start to doubt my worth for any reason in this world or the worth of ANY other human being, I must remember the HIGH price that God has already paid for the WORLD.

John.3 [16] “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

1John.4 [11] “Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.”