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.

Sorry.......

Well, first of all I'm sorry for not writing. And especially sorry about those of you who might read this and that I owe letters or emails to. I haven't been writing  to anyone, hardly emailing, google + ing and facebooking, and obviously I haven't blogged for ages. 

I believe all those dear friends of mine who have taken the time to write or email probably think I don't care about them which is the opposite!!!

Thank God for those friends who have sent me loving and encouraging letters or emails messages or posts, I've been really blessed by them!
(this is a picture of me with my favorite pup from a litter of pups I just sold {with God's help})

Since this summer as been SO busy I haven't wrote much recently, but what are you most interested in hearing about regarding my life? I'm just curious if my posts have been a blessing to you, or if you just don't relate! I want to be an encouragement and a friend.

Also the main reason for not writing is because there's SO much going on!! What DO I write about?

God has been answering prayers left and right and I'm just like "WOW GOD" what else do you want me to believe you for? It would take for ever to write down all the recent prayers he's answered! How my unbelief has limited God!!! I believe my next post will be about this AMAZING book my dear brother Isaac gave me for my 18th BIRTHDAY!!!

(I know, I can't believe I'm that old!) And I really, really have been challenged and convicted to seek the face of God much more than I  have up to this point!

 Also my mom and brother Isaac just got back from a trip to Myrtle Beach, SC. Where they attended my Granny's 80th birthday.(my mom's mom) They were gone for a week and we were REALLY busy here.

Anyways, I hope each one of you that read this are encouraged in the Lord!!! 

Love,

 

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!    

-Prayer-

Prayer is something  I've never done faithfully....  I guess I've not really [truly] loved the Lord in the past and wanted to spend time with him, sure there were moments,but nothing lasting!.I would talk ALOT about praying and spending time with him, and have such good ideas ;) But nothing ever came out of them since I always had tons of other "stuff" to do and so much of it was a TOTAL waste of time!! 
The reason we don't want to spend time with him is because we have other things that are more important than him!
If you're in a relationship with someone, and never talk or spend time with that person  and spend lots of time with other people and let other things take up your time; then when you see that person again tell them how much you care about them it's probably not gonna mean anything to them!(That that is probably the end of your relationship.) Your actions must show what your words say!! 
The Lord has been always there for us and we are the ones that are "cheating" on him in a way  by  living the way we want to live , and  doing what WE want. And then we will talk about how much we love the Lord(on sunday){if that} and  say a little prayer and feel good about ourselves! 
And yet when we have a problem or things are really going bad for us or a friend or relative is sick we want him! 
My desire is that I would want to spend time with the Lord the good days AND the bad! And that it wouldn't be something that is something I force myself to do to be this "good" christian!
Btw am I really "Christ-like?" I don't really think so! If I was  like Jesus there would be no greater joy then to spend time with my heavenly father!! I would greatly appreciate your prayers for me in that!
I know it's probably hard to understand alot of what I say, it's usually so scrambled up! Anyways that's not important...
Yes, and I've seen so much how if we are faithful in prayer and have FAITH in Jesus Christ that he WILL perform that which he promised! He has answered so many prayers of mine and I know I don't deserve for him to even listen after all those times I've not listened to his pleading voice!


Don't lose heart when something doesn't happen right away!  there is a quote from somewhere that says " that we would pray until we pray"


                                   *katie*