What has happened in the past few months!

Hello wonderful people. :) Did you realize I haven't blogged for MONTHS!!! So much has happened since then, and thankfully, God has been continuing to change things for the better as I allow Him his rightful place on the throne of my heart!
       First of all, I've been busy with G.E.D. classes which I've been taking for the last few months. I thoroughly loved them. If you are thinking of getting your GED, I'd recommend taking classes in your local town. Not only have I grown academically, but I've also prepared myself for the actual GED tests, knowing what to expect. If your teachers are anything like mine were, you would love the experience. To me they were like family in a way; very supportive and encouraged and helped me succeed and reach my goals. Being there also gave me a chance to be a witness-- not so much my words necessarily, but my actions; showing forth the love of Christ! My teachers are normal people, and they have bad and goods days. God gave me a burden to pray for them, especially my main teacher. I didn't want to be just any other girl going there, but that there would be a difference! I wanted that difference to be Jesus Christ! So many nights I'd pray and cry out to the Lord for him to fill me with HIS love for them, that they could taste and see that God is good, just, merciful and I love him with all my heart; He is my passion, my one true love; I want nothing else! God gave me words to pray, and filled me with His compassion for them. May they see from me that God is worthy of all praise. You know that the most you can do for someone is by spending time alone with God yourself! I've seen time and time again how people react differently to me when I've really been in the presence of the Lord. All of a sudden people want to be around me. They want to talk with me. I can then smile genuinely with a light in my eyes that only Jesus could put there!
         
 I've also had a couple litters of puppies born in the middle of February, and gone by the beginning of April. That kept me pretty busy to say the least, but it was good. Those nights I had to stay up with the mother dogs, exhausted and tired, that's when I really needed God to be me strength in a reality. You know you will never know God truly as your strength until you're weak and can't do it yourself! I realized how much I needed God; I couldn't do it on my own. Some of those nights became incredible opportunities to spend in prayer with the Lord for others, and just singing songs to the Lord out there in the barn alone. Just me and God. The dogs loved the worship songs, and I read aloud the bible to the dogs actually. Believe it or not, reading of the bible and singing songs of worship to the Lord really effected the dogs. Whereas they were hyper, and nervous, they became calm, relaxed and scooted closer to me. The baby puppies would all go to sleep peacefully. Even dogs can sense the greatness of God.

I wasn't sure I wanted to share this, but I will so God can be glorified! Some of you may already know that our little home fellowship had a split a couple months ago. Naturally, when things like that happen, you have questions like why God? When I saw that things were getting tense, I did alot of praying that this divide wouldn't happen... I know I wanted the Lord, and it seems as if everyone did, but it appears people get focused in on a single issue instead of seeing God in his greatness. When divisions come in churches it is easy to become bitter and resent those ones who disagreed with your family. I found the greatest healing in forgiving, and asking the Lord to fill me with a love for each one. HE DID. I still love those families that we not longer meet with, and am good friends. Satan wants to use any and every situation to turn your heart away from God; bitterness is something he uses alot. One amazing thing is this: Darkness CANNOT defeat light. God is Light, and in him is no darkness at all! Praise Him! What my I wants is that everyone would really know the Lord and let Jesus be everything and have everything. My family prays that those families continue on in the Lord, and that is really what is important! People don't have to meet in our home with us in order to be saved and walk with the Lord! What individuals need, is to truly KNOW who God is, and allow that one and only true God to come and be everything.

Well, this has been one loooong post, and I wonder if you read this far yet :) If you have that's awesome! I hope it has blessed you in some way to realize there is no other like Jesus Christ!

Love to you who are reading this now, and all I can say more is this:

SPEND QUALITY TIME ALONE WITH GOD.

My biggest fault....

-LAZINESS-
That is the offensive name! It seems like we all have that one thing that gets in the way of our walk with the Lord! Whether it's something you do, or have, it's all the same in a way.
Recently I really have 'wanted' to get up in the mornings before the others are up, and spend some time with the Lord before our usual family devotions.
So I set my alarm for 6:00 am. Morning comes and the alarm goes off. I wake up partially...Look at the clock, and then how dark & cold it is....."God you know I want to pray and have a quiet time reading my bible, but I really NEED this sleep....I will get up extra early tomorrow morning " and with that resolve making me feel like a "good" person, I go back to bed.
I get up about an hour later,  asking myself why I didn't get up earlier? Tomorrow I will get up early FOR SURE I tell myself.
And on and on the same routine every day!
It was on Wednesday night when we had a meeting here, that we were reading in 2 Chronicles 20 
I will put down some of the main verses(at the bottom of the page) but I'd highly recommend reading the whole chapter!
These verses are talking about how God said how he'd right for them etc. And then before they saw the dead bodies of their enemies they worshiped and Praised God! It was when they stared to sing and to praise God  that God went before them and their enemies were all killed!
It was because they had faith in God's promise, that they praised him ahead I time, they BELIEVED that he would do what he had said! I think God really wants to take him at his word!!
 Anyways last night I realized that I never had faith that God would get me out of bed in the morning, I totally was disbelieving in God that he would help me overcome the enemy in my life called "laziness" So last night I just praised and thanked the Lord for getting me up the next morning, and had faith in him , and the morning comes around, and wow God really had defeated that "lazy" spirit , I got up, and really was awake and had my quiet time in the morning feeling so much refreshed!
I must daily have that faith in him!
There is a reason the verse says "faith as a mustard seed" you don't need to work up this "big" faith, just a pinch of the real thing, and God can actually do what he wants to do! I was just like THANK YOU GOD!!! he's so amazing, I want my life to bring him Glory, although sometimes Its so easy take my eyes off of the light!

15And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

¹⁶To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of 

Jeruel.

 ¹⁷Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be 

dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.

¹⁸And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

¹⁹And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites, and of the children of the Korhites, stood up to praise the LORD God of Israel with a loud voice on high.

 ²⁰And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

²¹And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the LORD, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, and to say, Praise the LORD; for his mercy endureth for ever.

 ²²And when they began to sing and to praise, the LORD set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and mount Seir, which were come against Judah; and they were smitten.