So tonight I picked up Joyce Meyer 'women to women' - an awesome book with brilliant short snippets of wisdom. It's sat next to my loo so I can pick it up and read a chapter during my daily ablutions! Sorry if that has given you an image you'd rather not have but the point is that God can talk to you anywhere really!
So he spoke to me about hope - a life without hope. Those who don't have hope are often so depressed and miserable - who can blame them if they are having a hard time and think that 'this is it it'll never get any better'!!!
The bible says that we are to "hope in God and wait expectantly for him" psalm 42:5 and also "God is good to those who wait hopefully and expectantly for him" Lam 3:25
If we expect the worst from people we normally get it. If you know a friend will let you down at some point she will and you will remember that part not all the other times when she does something special for you. I expect the worst from men. I always seem to find the men who want only one thing and those who have so little value and respect for their girlfriends and wives. Sorry chaps but I've begun to think that you're all the same which is a complete tragedy.
After reading this chapter I suddenly thought it is what I look for. I don't see the men who aren't like that I constantly look to find the men that are. If I don't see it a first I look for it expectantly! I know it doesn't mean I should go around with my head in a bucket always assuming that every man is an angel but I should stop expecting the worst all the time.
I want a good, funny, stunningly attractive, Christian man who absolutely adores me! Ok maybe my expectations are high but God is God after all and I'm in faith that he has a man lined up for me that will sweep away all the the hurts and disasters of the past.
So tonight I'm going to try and press through and change my attitude to men. Stopping looking for them to be untrustworthy and unfaithful but instead believe in God for the right one and if the others put me off in the mean time that's because they have a big God sticker on them saying "Not for you Rachel - I have better in store"!
So in summary - I shouldn't live in despair that Ll men are alike and that I will never find a good one that I can trust but rather live in hope that God will provide the perfect one. So I wait expectantly for God and in hope - how exciting that day will be!!!!
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Friday, 30 December 2011
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
Jealousy - we're all different!
Sorry it's been a while - as usual life gets in the way and the fact that my work computer no longer supports this website which limits the time I get to contribute to it. Yup - i was doing it on work time before, but I'm sure Her Majesty wouldn't have minded me sparing 10 minutes to talk about Jesus! However Satan obviously did so has been making it a bit more difficult for me!
So today - well I've taken to listening to Casting Crowns most recent album 'The Well' and there is one track that suddenly inspired me to blog today. It is called the City on the Hill and the gist of the song is about a group of people in a city who all ended up letting their differences get in between them....
"You see, the poets thought the dancers were shallow
And the soldiers thought the poets were weak
And the elders saw the young ones as foolish
And the rich man never heard the poor man speak"
They all moved away and the light in the city on the hill began to fade. I love the song it makes me realise how important it is to value other peoples gifts and work with them. We have all been designed to be unique - there is no one on this Earth who is like you. No one who can do things the way you do them. Now instinctively I imagine you are all thinking but she can do that better and I'm not as good as her at doing that! We play right into the devils hand when we go down this route. You have to remember that if you are thinking that then they are probably thinking the same about you or someone else!
I like dancing when I worship - I am rubbish at it! I don't look graceful or elegant - I wish I could have a few drinks first because then I think I'd probably be awesome. And there are some other girls I see dancing who just seem to look amazing. I get struck with jealousy - sometimes I don't even dance because of it. But, I have to remember at these times it is about what I bring - so I don't make church look elegant or graceful when I look like a baby hippo trampling around in the wings, but sometimes I can bring a word of knowledge, or even just a hug to a friend in need and that is what I am good at.
The song then goes on to talk about what each person brings to the others....
"It is the rhythm of the dancers
That gives the poets life
It is the spirit of the poets
That gives the soldiers strength to fight
It is the fire of the young ones
It is the wisdom of the old
It is the story of the poor man
That's needing to be told"
We can't look at what someone else has and be jealous because we don't have it because we need to realise what it is that we have that someone else doesn't have and needs in order to do what their good at.
I can say without a single doubt that whoever you are reading this you are special and unique, you bring something to this world that no one else does. Maybe you don't see it - so ask God to reveal it to you. But I can guarantee that it is there and that there is probably someone out there looking at you wishing that they had it. So stop being jealous of what you don't have or do and thank God for what you do have and start using it!
So today - well I've taken to listening to Casting Crowns most recent album 'The Well' and there is one track that suddenly inspired me to blog today. It is called the City on the Hill and the gist of the song is about a group of people in a city who all ended up letting their differences get in between them....
"You see, the poets thought the dancers were shallow
And the soldiers thought the poets were weak
And the elders saw the young ones as foolish
And the rich man never heard the poor man speak"
They all moved away and the light in the city on the hill began to fade. I love the song it makes me realise how important it is to value other peoples gifts and work with them. We have all been designed to be unique - there is no one on this Earth who is like you. No one who can do things the way you do them. Now instinctively I imagine you are all thinking but she can do that better and I'm not as good as her at doing that! We play right into the devils hand when we go down this route. You have to remember that if you are thinking that then they are probably thinking the same about you or someone else!
I like dancing when I worship - I am rubbish at it! I don't look graceful or elegant - I wish I could have a few drinks first because then I think I'd probably be awesome. And there are some other girls I see dancing who just seem to look amazing. I get struck with jealousy - sometimes I don't even dance because of it. But, I have to remember at these times it is about what I bring - so I don't make church look elegant or graceful when I look like a baby hippo trampling around in the wings, but sometimes I can bring a word of knowledge, or even just a hug to a friend in need and that is what I am good at.
The song then goes on to talk about what each person brings to the others....
"It is the rhythm of the dancers
That gives the poets life
It is the spirit of the poets
That gives the soldiers strength to fight
It is the fire of the young ones
It is the wisdom of the old
It is the story of the poor man
That's needing to be told"
We can't look at what someone else has and be jealous because we don't have it because we need to realise what it is that we have that someone else doesn't have and needs in order to do what their good at.
I can say without a single doubt that whoever you are reading this you are special and unique, you bring something to this world that no one else does. Maybe you don't see it - so ask God to reveal it to you. But I can guarantee that it is there and that there is probably someone out there looking at you wishing that they had it. So stop being jealous of what you don't have or do and thank God for what you do have and start using it!
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