"Sistas in Christ" Vol. 5

[Dedicated]

Hey sisters! just wanted to pop in and say hello!
Be blessed!

[Kensbev]

Um... I've been here since the beginning of last month, but I'm slow to work my way around. Do you mind if I join you?

Pcola Girl - I was just talking to DH about Obama tonight. I blog on a very conservative political blog sometimes, and they're still trashing the man. As a Christian, I just don't get it. I didn't vote for him, but God let him win the election. Who am I to say God got it wrong? I'm going to accept things for the way they are, becaues I know that if God had wanted something different, well, something different would have happened.

[Star123]

Originally Posted by Kensbev

Um... I've been here since the beginning of last month, but I'm slow to work my way around. Do you mind if I join you?

Pcola Girl - I was just talking to DH about Obama tonight. I blog on a very conservative political blog sometimes, and they're still trashing the man. As a Christian, I just don't get it. I didn't vote for him, but God let him win the election. Who am I to say God got it wrong? I'm going to accept things for the way they are, becaues I know that if God had wanted something different, well, something different would have happened.

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Kensbev!!! sure you can join us. This is a friendly and non-judgmental group of chritian women, who love to share and talk about God. Feel free to post anytime.

If you don't mind, I would like to comment on what you said about the election. Don't worry it's all good!!! I think it's terrible that people are still trashing Obama. Shame on them!!! I'm a canadian and I believe that whoever gets in office will be blessed and directed by God. Even if it isn't in God's plan at the beginning, He will make a blessing out of the siduation at hand. This has always been God's way of dealing with government officals, heads of state and politics in North America. Jesus said to contantly pray for your leadership and government. I think it's wonderful that you're standing on God's principals and are accepting the way things are, because that's the way God operates.

I believe that you're a strong women of faith and that God has plans for you. I don't know what they will be, but I believe that God will use you in the near future.

God bless,

[Dedicated]

Hey Kensbev! Welcome

[Star123]

Originally Posted by Dedicated

Hey sisters! just wanted to pop in and say hello!
Be blessed!

Hi Dedicated, I was wondering how you've been doing lately. I sure missed you!!! and I'm so glad you're back with us. God bless you and have a wonderful night.

love Tammy

[Dedicated]

Originally Posted by Star123

Hi Dedicated, I was wondering how you've been doing lately. I sure missed you!!! and I'm so glad you're back with us. God bless you and have a wonderful night.

love Tammy

Hey Tammy! I'm good! how's everything with you? Any plans for the weekend?

[la.lady]

Good Afternoon, just a quick hello... I am running through wishing you a wonderful weekend. We are having lots of fun with Whitney... I am really going to miss her when she goes back home...

Welcome Kensbev, we are so very glad to have you with us and God Bless You...

[Dedicated]

Hey sistas!!!!

[Star123]

Hi Sistas!!!

I've been a bit mia, because I've been fighting a sore throat. Funny, how I had friday off for a long weekend and got sick. Anyways, I took today off because I couldn't sing with the worship team with the way I'm feeling, but God is sustaining me and I will get better.

Patty, I wanted to let you know that I finally got the results back from the thyroid testing and blood work. My thyroid is definately not working properly, being underactive, [hypothyroid], and I'm on 75mg of levothyroxine for a month, my doctor will determine my proper dosage for me as time goes on. I think me and my sister will have a closer bond now that we both have the same condition. Thanks.

Dedicated, I'm glad you're doing fine. I'm doing okay too. I'm reading another book called, "Lessons I learned in the Light," by author Jennifer Rothschild. She is totally blind, is a speaker, author and a recording artist. In her book, she shares how God taught her a profound secret in persevering and endurance in these troubled times we live in. She has quite a testimony.

Worldchanger, Diana, Mary, Teri and those I missed!!!

Have a blessed Sunday!!!

[Dedicated]

I posted this in my journal but wanted to share with you!

Originally Posted by Dedicated

Good Morning Sunshynes!

Just when you think life is bad for you and it can't get any worse God sends someone your way to remind you that there are far more worse things in life and you should be appreciative. So this past week was not the best in life and I started feeling lonely, sad and wanting to sit home and not do anything. I had all these plans and I couldn't just not show up so I couldn't wallow in my so called "sorrow". I was forced to be around positive people and people I would have to choice but to smile with. Then Sunday morning came, I made every excuse for not wanting to step foot outside and I struggled to open the word before I left my house. I thought about it and said to myself that if this was for work I would've never made up any excuses for not coming into work. So I go dressed and went to church.
In the morning we had a guest speaker Brad Trask, and everytime he comes I feel like God has a word for me! And when I saw him, I was so excited that I didn't stay home. I knew I would be encouraged and be fed something meaty. He spoke about we as Christians being "fishers of men"
Matthew 4
19"Come, follow me," Jesus said, "and I will make you fishers of men." NIV
19 Jesus called out to them, “Come, follow me, and I will show you how to fish for people!” NLT
He also said there are two classes of christians..... those who win souls to Christ and those who just talk about it...Which are you????
Proverbs 11:30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise. NIV
I want to be wise, help us be wise Jesus!
When he said that my spirit moved.....We can TALK about walking this christian life, but those of us who LIVE it have a relationship with Christ!
He talked about fishing in our little ponds, when we need to be fishing elsewhere, he also talked about the fish not wanting to be caught! of course people are gonna tell you they don't want to hear what we have to say, but it's wise to be persistent but TACTFUL! That's where a lot of christians go wrong....we're not tactful! How do we not spread the gospel, the good word, about God..notice all those words have GO in it! We need to go and not be ashamed of the word!
Then Afternoon service came and I was already encouraged but when I saw the speaker God sent, I knew there was a word coming. Sister Tennyson she said her name was. It was an older white woman from Kentucky look to be about 65. She started to tell us of her church, and 20 years ago her youth group went on a trip and 67 people left and only 40 came back alive. A drunk driver hit the bus head on and it caught on fire. She told us how the youth pastor when he caught on fire first lifted up his hand to God when he knew he couldn't make it out alive and told them he was going home today! How many of us if we caught on fire could say with confidence that we were going home today? 30 minutes before the crash, a young lady on the bus who was a visitor asked the pastor's son to pray for her and he asked her "if we didn't make it home tonight, would you get to heaven?" and she said no! He prayed with her and she gave her life to Christ with tears rolling down her face. She didn't survive, but we know where she is now! She received his grace!!!! A mother the night before her son went on the trip yelled at him and for however long told him all the things she thought were wrong with him. Then she told him to clean his room or he wouldn't be able to go on the trip. Her son cleaned his room and left the next morning with his dad. He didn't get to see his mom that morning. Her son never came back home to that clean room. But he left a note on his mirror telling his mom that he cleaned the room because he loved her and wanted to make her happy and not because he wanted to go on the trip. That was the last memory of her son, Is that how we want our kids to remember us? She talked about how patient we are with other people in church, at work, but when it comes to our own family we're so rude and short tempered. Tomorrow is not promised, it's what we make of it today! She encouraged the church to hug their family, let them know how much you appreciate them in a blink of an eye it can all be gone. And that clean house you wanted so bad, it'll be clean they'll be no one in it to make a mess.....This just had me thinking, this message ministered to me sooo much! You can put on a front all you want but God sees you, he knows your thoughts! Be real with him and he'll be real with you!

I hope you're blessed by this sorry for the length but I need to share and hopefully it makes you want to change for the better!
Needless to say I no longer feeling lonely or sad....I have so much to be grateful for why complain?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrollton_bus_disaster

[Star123]

Morning Ladies,

Dedicated, I read the first part of your journal and it's really good!!! I make myself go to church. I go, not just because I sing in a worship team, but I really enjoy the people there. A church makes a difference, when it's a place you feel welcome in. I've been to many churches in the past, but I felt that I never really fit in. It takes time to feel comfortable in a congregation, but when you go and keep going, it grows on you. Take care.

You'll have a great monday!!!

[Dedicated]

Originally Posted by Star123

Morning Ladies,

Dedicated, I read the first part of your journal and it's really good!!! I make myself go to church. I go, not just because I sing in a worship team, but I really enjoy the people there. A church makes a difference, when it's a place you feel welcome in. I've been to many churches in the past, but I felt that I never really fit in. It takes time to feel comfortable in a congregation, but when you go and keep going, it grows on you. Take care.

You'll have a great monday!!!

I know when I'm down if I get to church that my spirits will be lifted up! I go expecting to be encouraged by the word and it never fails! Enjoy your day too!

[la.lady]

Dedicated Oh Sweetheart, what a blessing you shared with us... I chocked up because that hit home... I was complaining this morning what a mess I am going to have while my precious family will be here during Thanksgiving and what I will have to deal with after they leave. Shame on me !!!! I love my kids but boy are they messy...Ha, Ha...

[la.lady]

Girls, I come to you with a Heavy Heart today and I need your prayers... As you know Whitney and her Beau Charlie came for the weekend. Well I am not thrilled at all with the fact that Whitney is dating Charlie... He has been in trouble before and is on probation and when I asked him what kind of music he likes, he said Demonic and I think he was trying to push my buttons because he knows that I am a Christian... He tried to cover it up of course, and laugh it off... He has no ambition in life and has not even finished high school. This is not the type of guy that Whitney would even date and I don't know where her head is. I am so very distraught and I pray that God intercedes, and gets Charlie out of her life, if it is not meant for her to be with him... His family is Christians and I think that he is being rebellious... I don't know, but I am very upset with this relationship... Please hold Whitney up in your prayers...

[Dedicated]

Originally Posted by la.lady

Dedicated Oh Sweetheart, what a blessing you shared with us... I chocked up because that hit home... I was complaining this morning what a mess I am going to have while my precious family will be here during Thanksgiving and what I will have to deal with after they leave. Shame on me !!!! I love my kids but boy are they messy...Ha, Ha...

I'm glad it touched you! It just makes you think what if you had no family to come and visit, to cook for? what would we say then? I'm happy it touched you, enjoy your family!

[la.lady]

Thanks Dedicated and I really do always enjoy my family around... It is the cleaning up after that gets me, but you opened my eyes Darling...

[Dedicated]

Originally Posted by la.lady

Thanks Dedicated and I really do always enjoy my family around... It is the cleaning up after that gets me, but you opened my eyes Darling...

Well amen amen!

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Another thing she told us yesterday. One of her associate pastors lost his entire family on that bus, his wife and two daughters. He's an only child and his parents were only children, so no cousins aunts, uncles none of that. So when his family died he really lost everything and everyone in his family!!! can you imagine! Anyways on the day of his daughter's sixteen birthday he was scheduled to minister at a church in NC and he didn't want to go. He wanted to go to his daughters grave and bring her the 16 roses he promised her and just hug her headstone. But he prayed and God told him he needed to go, that he was going to do something there. God also told him to have 16 roses delivered to the church, so he obeyed. When he got there Sunday the pastor asked him why he had 16 roses sent to the church and he said he had no idea but God told him to so he did. He told the pastor that when the girl they were for came in he'd know because God would reveal it. Isn't that faith? During him preaching a young girl walked in and he stopped asked her name and told her that even though I don't know you God told me to give you these 16 roses. And the girl began to cry and the church began to cheer. It turns out that same Sunday was her 16th birthday and 3 years ago her mom dropped her on the steps of the church and never came back for her. So she felt that no one wanted her etc. So she asked God if he was really God to have someone give her 16 roses to show that he's real!!! Now she's grown and is a youth pastor Isn't God great? isn't he awesome??? So when I feel led to share or do something I can't ignore it....I'm being obedient and I don't know his plans...he uses whomever he needs to! I want to be used by him, don't you?
I can just worship him right now, he's soooooo good!!!! So even though I get nervous when I have to share something or I think people think I'm a fanatic I'm like hey call me whatever you want but as long as I please him.....I'm good [/font]

[la.lady]

As I think on things today, I feel at peace knowing that God is with me in all that I do... That is such a wonderful feeling...

[Determinedtolose]

Hi Ladies,
Patty, I'll be praying mainly for this guy to come to the Lord and believe. He needs the Lord. We don't know why Whitney and Charlie are together, only God knows. And remember that with God all things are possible. Don't worry, the Lord is with Whitney throughout all this. Charlie was testing ou to see how you will react by what he said, but don't get offended, if he tries to do that again. Just keep showing the love of God towards this person.

Ro 2:4
Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

We'll keep her in our prayers!!!

I wanted to share something too about what the Lord did for me. Yesterday I was feeling kind of depressed about my house. I was upset and sad because it's a big mess with all the work DH is doing in the inside. Especially during the holidays because I want to decorate. I was at my sisters house on Saturday and her house is so nice and clean and orderely, it just made my house look like a sty, lol.

Well I decided to go back to bed and lay there, it was around 9am. I hadn't eaten and didn't want to cook either. So I'm laying in bed talking to the Lord and although I'm giving thanks for what He's given DH and I, I was still depressed about my house. My room was a mess with clutter and I just didn't want to deal with it.

So as I'm talking to the Lord, I sensed this, "why don't you just get up and clean your room. If you clean your room, you'll feel better and it will get done." Immediately I got up and did just that. I really cleaned it out and got some bags of old clothes that I was wearing because, thank You Lord, they don't fit! But I was able to give them to someone who could be blessed by them.

After I was done, I was so thankful to the Lord that I listened. That I didn't choose to let my flesh win and continue to feel sorry for myself. I've done that in the past!
God IS good and when we listen to Him and His word, then His peace and joy follow.

Hallelujah!!!

[la.lady]

Diana thanks and I needed that. I have had a hard time doing anything in the house today, because I just feel drained... I too need to do some things... God is good, and we all need to listen...

[Kensbev]

Dedicated, I lived in that area when the bus crash happened. That story really moved me. TFS!

[Dedicated]

Originally Posted by Kensbev

Dedicated, I lived in that area when the bus crash happened. That story really moved me. TFS!

Really!!! Oh my, the story was powerful I can't imagine being near it!!