Thump Thump Thump......
Today is October 1st, 2007! I had a wonderful weekend! Me and my friend Megan and my girls went to Tenn to visit a good friend of ours Erin Blair. She is literally about to have her baby in like 2 weeks! Her husband (Matt) was on the road, so we decided to go and hang out with her, and show her some love! Friday was a typical road trip that came with all the laughter, and funny quotes along the way! (Rebekah and Rachel were in the backseat of Megan's beetle by the way) so if that gives you any kind of an idea! lol! They were awesome there and back, with the occasional she's touching me, or I'm hot, or I got to pee, or I am thirsty....but that was ok!
There is a lot to type, so I am going to concentrate on the Church service and the feel of their church! It was amazing the love and genuine care that was among those people! I told Megan their heartbeat was true Christian Community! Nobody cared if you had jeans on, or shorts on! The purpose was to ensure others that EVERYONE deserves a second chance no matter what.....Grace is for everyone, and often Christians attack rather than restore! I got a taste of Jesus this weekend! He always ate at the "wrong" lunch table so to speak....remember the horrible, good for nothing tax collector.....Jesus said in Luke 19
5When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, "Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today." 6So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly. 7All the people saw this and began to mutter, "He has gone to be the guest of a 'sinner.'
Jesus chose to eat and "hang out" with Zacchaeus not the religious leaders, rich people or the religious people.......He chose to restore, not Judge! I read the Barbarian Way not to long ago, and seeing it in action was amazing! God has shown me things in my life this past weekend, that has changed the course of my heartbeat, It BEATS for Him, and PUMPS for others......more to come on that!!
Get lost in HIM.......
Holly Myers<><
don't need an umbrella......give me JESUS:)
so today is Wednesday......A lot has happened in my life since I last wrote...(i do apologize) I often find myself writing in my head and never get it to here. So anyways....
I did have a most fab time in Florida:) Richard and I stay so busy that we never just stop for a break, or relax! God has provided the extra energy we have needed over the past few weeks. I never knew that being in ministry was so hard, I mean I read where Daniel was thrown into the lions den, John the Baptist was beheaded, Paul was beat up and so forth.....I once heard Billy Graham say "Christians can be their own worse enemies" WOW! I never knew that to be true. When people don't know you they "assume" everything about you, and that's not fair. I often get so frustrated with the people whom you think should support you the most, cast doubt and shame your way. I have learned from my closest friends this past few weeks that endurance pushes us to become more like CHRIST! I want to suffer, and I want to bring glory to Him, no matter the cost. I love being apart of FOCUS, and Chapel Grove and if if means going through storms, over and over again....well bring on the rain!
Get lost in Him....
Holly<><
(This verse speaks volumes......)
Galatians 1:10
"Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or God? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ."
standing before the KING!
Psalms 95:6-7 6 Come, let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the LORD our Maker; 7 for he is our God and we are the people of his pasture, the flock under his care. Today, if you hear his voice
When we experience true worship, our lives are impacted in a way that NO ONE can understand. I remember when we came back from both battlecry events, speaking about it, and describing the way I felt, or things I saw didn't even compare to what was truly inside me....
I don't think anyone would treat worship as they do, if they were truly standing before our Maker!! We use Praise and worship as a time to fix our clothes, pop that piece of gum in, go to the bathroom, tell our friends something (that is soooo important it just can't wait), and we don't realize that we are offering up our worse at that time. I truly believe that worship leads us into the throne room of God. I believe that when I offer up my heart NO matter what the condition is, that's when God begins to change us! He meets us where we are! I LOVE THAT:)
So today as you enter into the weekend, remember that whatever! let me repeat that WHATEVER we do, do it as if you are standing before the Maker:)
Get lost in HIM........ Holly
THIS WAS MY DEVOTION FOR TODAY!!!! Too good not to pass along....
But sir,Gideon replied, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all his wonders that our fathers told us about when they said, 'Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?' But now the Lord has abandoned us and put us into the hand of Midian. Judges 6:13 NIV
You say you are with us oh really? Where were you yesterday when the Midianites came and took our food? What about the fact that I’m out here in the heat and should be home? Why has all this happened to us anyway? And, where are all these wonders and miracles we’ve heard about?
Gideon had a rare opportunity to question the God of the universe and so he lets one rip: Where have you been God?
Gideon may have been pondering this question long time thinking, Well I tell you one thing if I ever get a chance I’m going to ask him one question…
Gideon got his chance. God shows up and Gideon asks, Where you been God?
Isn’t this the same question you and I have often wanted to ask God? If you are so good God if you are so powerful, then why has all this stuff happened to us? You say You love me God, but if that’s true, then why is my life such a mess?
Gideon asks the question we always want to ask in the face of desperation.
Sometimes when I look around at the world in which we live, it doesn’t look like God is anywhere to be found. Sometimes the problems in this world make us feel that God is absent. As followers of God, you should know that there will be times in life when you will not -feel- like God is anywhere around. But you should more importantly know this: your emotional state does not determine truth…anymore than public opinion does. It may look like God is absent He’s not. Regardless of situations in the world or how you feel at the time. God is never absent.
Also know that this is not the world as God intended it to be Or how He intends to leave it for that matter. Faith is trusting God when it doesn’t seem to make sense to do so. Do you have that kind of faith?
Get lost in HIM....
Holly<><
giving it all up......
Romans 12:1-2 (The Message)
1-2 So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you
We are to take every part of life and give it up as an offering? Does that mean we let God be in control of our mouth, our relationship, or work, our friendships, but we control our music, or our finances......NO NO NO! We often wonder why we can't see God working, or don't feel His blessings. Have you ever thought that you may be withholding something from Him. Maybe its your heart, you are good person, and helpful person, but you never fully gave your heart to Him. "Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking." I am so guilty of this. Going through the motions of life, becoming "well adjusted" to this culture, and the way the world says to "live" and I do it without thinking! this is saying if we fix our heart and our eyes on Christ, we will be changed from the inside/out and we will be able to recognize the worldly traps that satan has placed infront of us. You know the NIV says "be transformed" and I want my life to be the complete opposite of who I was before...
We you are transformed....EVERYTHING changes about you...your whole thinking process changes...
Have you been TRANSFORMED?
Get Lost in Him.......
Holly
my diamond........
so this week has been overwhelming and to say the least...I am tired! Each time I come across Isaiah 40:29-31 God knows I need it! To name a few things going on...
1. MY DIAMOND FELL OUT OF MY RING!
2. BACK TO SCHOOL BASH
3. WORK WORK WORK (enough said)
4. RICHARD's CAR STOPPED 7 TIMES YESTERDAY
5. MY BABY IS STARTING IS STARTING KINDERGARTEN!
Ok seems like I can handle it when I write it down..... I have realized this week, each time something would go wrong....I would say God just carry me just carry me....and I felt a peace. I no longer wish to stress out so much, that you can't even enjoy something! I did that for so long, and it didn't work, and then I would be glad things were over....birthday parties, conferences, events, trips etc. I refuse to allow Satan to be pleased! I have always wanted to please others growing up, and if that meant gossiping, or sitting with a certain group well I would. Many years ago, I realized that my approval was from the lack of my father's presence...I needed a dad growing up and didn't have one in my life. My dad and I reconciled after many years of heartache, and he died 10 years ago, but I don't blame him any more. I had a wonderful step father step in when I was in the 9th grade and he showed me so much, and I have the most respect for him. He is my dad!
I love watching rebekah, and rachel do things for Richard to say WOW, and ooow and aaaah. He is the master of validation and I am so proud of that. I read this morning in Romans 8 5-9. (message)
5-8Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored.
Who are you trying to please.....
earthly fathers?
boyfriends/girlfriends?
parents?
friendships?
GOD ISN'T PLEASED AT BEING IGNORED!
the ONE whom we should desire to please most!
Get lost in HIM............
"Lord send the rain......."
Well today is August 20th....(Me and Richard begin dating on this day 15 years ago...awwwww. ok, enough of that cheesey stuff right? This past weekend was awesome~ we (meaning youth girls/my daughters) had a big sleepover at one of the youth's houses! They swam, danced and screamed and when the movie begin SILENCE fell across the room.... I mean you couldn't have heard a pin drop. I begin thinking about that and how so many times we are so hungry for a touch from God, yet we never just sit still and listen for HIM. I loved loved the new song we sang yesterday..."Holy Spirit rain down" Oh my goodness...the chill bumps~ God has really blessed our worship time, and I love it~ When we worship, it leads us into the throne room of God...that feeling of knowing as we worship through music, or serving others or teaching, or listening to preaching, or praying...all are acts of worship. I read this verse this morning.
Psalms 16:8 I have set the LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.-
This tells me that no matter what happens....HE is at my right hand....(BESIDE ME) When that sinks in.....OK BESIDE ME! ok major confidence boost~ Think about it, when we are serving others (He is right there!), when we are praising Him (He is there) when we are singing to the top of our lungs...(He is there) and when we are going through the major storms in our lives (HE IS THERE AND WE WILL NOT BE SHAKEN)
Today if you are wondering "where He is" He is right beside you! Let him hold your hand and lead you through__________you fill in the blank!
Get lost in Him............
Holly<><
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