How did you meet me and how long have you know me approximately?

Hey Everyone!

This is that awkward moment when, as you're reading this I ask you how you know me.

It's not really that awkward though in all reality! I just thought it would be SUPER fun to see how do you know me....So just comment on this, ok and I'll get to see how many of you will actually do that for me!

I'm so excited, yes I am, so bring it on! Also you could write honestly what you impression was of me when you met me. I know I've not always come across as a sweet angel. actually hardly ever. And I know that if you honestly tell me how I seemed when you  first met and/or saw me, will help me learn how to change too! God helps us see our mistakes and change as well as see where he's made us beautiful and how we can continue in it!

P.S.  don't  make up something good about me if it's not exactly true, this is suppose to be truthful! ;)

 

Sermon Index....

Those of you who have already listened to sermon index down loads know how wonderful it is that there are so many!

So, I have all the down loads here on my blog now! So if you just want to scroll down to the bottom of my page, there right there for you to listen to any time!

I have only listened to a couple, it's like I've hit a gold vein!

Paris Reidhead,Corrie Ten Boom,David Wilkerson, A.W Tozer. just to name a few!

The other nice thing is when you click on them, a whole new window doesn't open, just a little pop-up where you can listen to it while you're on my blog....:) I just thought I'd let you know, and "share the wealth" with you! 

So, God bless you! Happy listening!

~Katie

Talent....will it be used for the glory of God?

This is one song I've listened to OVER and OVER and OVER again! Want to hear a child prodigy, then listen to her! So, when I was listening to this song for the 100th time, I was just so saddened by the though, what will she be like when she's even 10 years?She is  so innocent now just enjoying her music.When people get famous they almost always seem to compromise (if they were any kind of Christian to start with) and have no relationship with God because they have so much....but really it's SO little. Everything on this earth, is nothing compared with one Jesus Christ!

It seems like whenever we have a talent, or ability to do certain things well, satan will come weasel his way in and corrupt what gift God has given! How horrible is that! 

I play piano, cello, panflute ,ocarina,guitar,accordian & violin....well, practically anything I can put my hands on. I wasn't as talented as this girl was when I was 7, oh no! But God had given me a talent, an ear for music. It has always came easily to learn any instrument, especially learn songs by hearing them once or twice. 

There have been so many times that I just played for attention, or play because I'm proud of myself or for many other selfish reasons.

Who am I to try to take the glory for what's not mine? God has gifted me, like he has everyone, and it's up to us to give him back the gift and let him show us how to use it!!

I want all areas to glorify him....

 

Witnessing.....

I have pretty much found THE best book about witnessing. The bible is best, but this brings out what the bible says about this subject!

It's by Ray Comfort, those of you who have watched the documentary called "the 180 movie" know who he is:)

So he has this book he wrote with questions people have asked him, and his answers! It is called "The Blue Book On Evangelism"

I've just started reading it, but am already so "wowed" by it that I couldn't keep from sharing ;)

The funny thing is, I can read different questions in this book, and be like "ya that's totally for this person" and " she/he should read this paragraph, they need it" 

It hit me, "what about me?"

I'm not applying this to my own life, but thinking about how others should read this part and that part.

I'm not saying they shouldn't but, my attitude should be to have an open heart for what God wants to show me through it!

Ok, so here are a couple of the questions & answers  out of that book.

 

Question 7 :

Is it wise to send new converts out into the battlefield before they are grounded in the word and apologetics?

It is the best thing you can do for them. The woman at the well didn't go to a seminary before she testified of the Savior,and she brought a whole village to Him. After finding Christ, Andrew immediately told Simon Peter. The first thing Philip did was find Nathaniel and immediately tell him about the Savior (see John chapter 1) If new converts came to Christ under the sound of the Law,they know enought to go and do likewise with the lost. They will make mistakes.They may get bruised.But that is how we learned to walk in this life, and the same is true spiritually.

(that one was really an eye opener for me, I thought that I shouldn't be witnessing when I myself am a new convert really, even if I've been raised up in a Christian home)

Question 14 :

Our motive for sharing and reaching out to the lost must be the love of Jesus.If it is anything else,our motive will be exposed and we'll be ineffective.How can we be sure our hearts are in the right place before hitting the streets?

Ask God to search out our motives.However, I would add one thing. Even if your heart isn't in the right place (I'm not talking about sin, but if you are going because of a sense of guilt), you should still go. If you were rescued from a burning building by a fireman who left the firehouse because he felt guilty not coming to the fire, as far as you are concerned, his motive for rescuing you is a non-issue. He did it. That's all that matters. So don't get hung up on why you reach out to the lost, just do it, while there is still time. The quality is in the seed, not the sower.

(I've felt like that alot, and that was something that prevented me from going, like I wasn't going for the right motive, and I thought I should'n't go if I was going out of guilt because I should've before etc etc...I know I'm not explaining  what I want to say right, but  you can read it the question and answer for yourself:)

So that's only two questions....so you should really read the whole book! 

I must be struck with the reality that there are souls dying going to a place they can NEVER come back from....it's horrible that I can be so comfortable while so many around me aren't told about Jesus Christ. Not religion!

Love you guys!

 

Procrastination .....

Why does it always have to be that I am constantly procrastinating! I hate it so much too!

It's not that I'm bad a cleaning, or working etc. It's just that it takes me an eternity (almost literally) to finally start my work/job whatever it is!

Once I get started, I just go, and go and go until the job's done...but usually what happens, is while I'm doing something, then I see something else that needs to be done & some other detail that needs doing...and pretty soon I get up to my neck in all sorts of projects at once, which usually takes hours....or they're all half done...

So I think I'm always having trouble starting something, because I know that it's going to be a long time before it's done. 

So now it's like I save up everything till night, like 8:30pm-12:30am, that way I get so tired that I just get my work and/or jobs done.....

The bad thing is this, I'm more tired, It's harder to get up early, and I have a horrible habit of only doing things later in the evening when I feel like it.Besides that, If I ever have a home of my own, I can just let everything be a complete disaster  and wait to do my cleaning, or wait to wash dishes at midnight. I need to be prepared now when I'm single :)

It's areas like these that I keep failing in! I must ask the Lord to help me! It's like I remember to ask him later on at night, in my room all alone with God; the real trial is when I'm procrastinating and then ask God to give me the strength to go and do my work, and that I'd focus on the job before me, and not just start things and not finish!

God wants to be involved in EVERY area of our lives! May I always let him be head!

You know what! I'm procrastinating right now! WOW! I should be sweeping and washing a floor... it's not quite 11:00 pm, but the new "spring forward"  time would mean it's 12:00 am....o my, time to clean! It's better to start now, than waste any more time on here!

I can talk all day about how bad procrastinating is, and not actually change, so, Lord, I know I should've gotten to this sooner, but now is better than never. Tomorrow is a new day, only with God will I change!

Have a wonderful  day/night whenever you read this!

The type of guy I told myself I'd never marry if I got married.:P

I don't know how many of you have read either of Debi Pearl's books on marriage. There are two for Ladies ; 'Preparing to be a help meet' & 'Created to be a help meet'  if you don't like them then that's fine, but I love them to death. Not literally, but I've learned SO many wonderful things from both of them that are vital in marriage.

I don't think marriage is something in the near,near future for me, but you never know! You could be 18 or 30 when you get married, but it never hurts to be prepared.

I used to write down  or think of what the perfect guy would be to marry, and tell myself that I would ABSOLUTELY not want to get married to the  "Command Man" type. If you've read either of Debi Pearls books, then you know exactly what I mean...I should actually put down some of that here that you can read...Anyways, so I was thinking about if I say "I WONT" That may be the very type of guy I do marry one day! I was amazed at how much I want to keep control in so many area's of my life, and don't want to surrender to the Lord! It's like I'm saying, "Lord, I love you, and know you know me better than I know myself, but I want to be boss"  Rather ridiculous isn't it!  If God knows me better than I do, then who better  to direct my life!! Really there is alot of comfort in that!! Marriage is one of those things most girls think about as they get closer to their twenties, and I  don't want that to be something that is always on my mind, or thinking about what type of guy would suit ME best! It's like I'm always thinking about ME ME ME. I want my focus to be on God! There is a verse about single ladies minding the things of the Lord.
I don't need to be worried about anything in the future! God has that all in his hands. But I want God to have his way in my life in EVERY area! And now I'm not saying I won't marry that type of guy...What ever is God's will in my future, is PERFECT and I'm not about to forget that if I keep my eyes on him!(I may not ever get married!)
Ok, so here's some different  portions from the " mr. command man" from debi pearls book.


A few men are born with more than their share of dominance and,on the surface, a deficit in gentleness. They often end up in positions  that command other men. We will call them Command Men. They are born leaders. They are often chosen by other men to be military commanders,politicians,preachers and heads of corporations. Winston Churchill ,George Patton and Ronald Reagan are examples of dominant men. Since our world needs only a few leaders, God seems to limit the number of these Command Men.


They are know for expecting their wives to wait on them hand and foot. A command man does not want his wife involved in a project that prevents her from serving him.If you are blessed to be married to a strong,forceful, bossy man as I am, then it is very important for you to learn how to make an appeal without challenging his authority. 
Command Men have less tolerance,so they will often walk off and leave their clamoring wife before she has the chance to realize that she is even close to losing her marriage.


She is on call every minute of the day. Her man wants to know where she is,what she is doing,and why she is doing it! He corrects her without thought. For better or for worse,it is his nature to control
A woman can fight till she's blue in the face, yet the command man will not yield. He is not as intimate or vulnerable as are other men in sharing his personal feelings or vocation with his wife. He seems to be sufficient unto himself .It is awful being shut out. A woman married to a command man has to earn her place in his heart by proving that she will stand by her man,faithful,loyal,and obedient.When she has won his confidence, he will treasure her to the extreme.....


Anyways...there is alot more to the part about that type of guy.....and I think the reason that I didn't like that idea of marrying someone like that, is because I am very head strong and bossy...I don't like to be one to lose. I know that I doesn't matter who I get married to one day, if I really learn to be faithful,loyal,and obedient to the Lord! Then I will continue being like that with the man I marry , doing in unto the Lord!! People aren't perfect, Period! So we're always going to be disappointed, but in the LORD we will NEVER be disappointed!
So my point of this email, was just to say that, I shouldn't ever say I'll never do this, but, just want God's perfect will in my life!
I don't need to worry about my future, I have today to live for the Lord, I want to live each day as my last one! I know up to this point, I really haven't!
I know those of you who know me slightly well, know that I am rather a person who rambles and doesn't make much sense.....

God is always good without fail!

I know I haven't been very faithful at blogging!

God has been teaching my so many things though and I've been so entirely blessed that he would speak to me and listen to me when I've shut him off when I wanted to just do what I wanted! What a mighty God we serve!

Recently there have been answers to prayer in my life, small things maybe to someone else, but to me it's a miracle that God would care about such little details in my life!

One thing is the golden retriever puppies, I usually haven't had a problem selling them, but we always did put lots of ads in the newspapers in multiple towns in Montana.

This is the first litter of pups I've sold since I've gave my heart to the Lord, and I know God has blessed that!

There were 10 pups, and by 3 1/2 weeks old all 10 of them were sold, one ONE ad was placed in the newspapers! You might think it was just a coincident , but I say it was the Lord looking after his business! It's the Lords , and God does know how to take care of what is his!

I just want to praise him for that!

There are other little things like the Cord to my camera I lost, then after asking God to find it It was found!

Lots of things that seem so small, but are actually huge to me! Any time a prayer is answered by God it is amazing!

Another thing that has been on my heart , is doing things unto the Lord! It brings a new meaning to everything if you look at it in that way!

Like if you don't think someone deserves you to treat them a  good, don't do it for the person because they're worthy, but because GOD is worthy!

We as a people are so selfish it seems! Always everything we do, even if it's nice to someone else, it's always for our own benefit in some way! We can think it's not, but I was realizing it was for me, if I didn't want someone else to notice, then I was doing it for my pride's sake... How different it would be if in ALL things I did, I did it unto the Lord!

I want to grow only closer to God !

God bless you all! Press on to know God more!