RECHARGE in the RIGHT PLACE

I read this devotional today.It got my focus back to what gives me energy and what drives me. Even when I am busy, feeling like a chicken running around with my head cut off (as I am right now) and feel stretched in so many directions, I have to stay connected to my Father. If I don't make the intentional time to put God first I will lose sight of my goals, I will run out of battery. I want my light to keep shining, when it seems dim, it has to be recharged in the right place. I pray I have the strength to be that person God is calling me to be. But only with God's strength can I take those risks, challenge myself, and have that courage. God, go before me.

Heres the devotional :)

Disconnect!

January 4, 2010

by Kevin W. Mannoia

The batteries get weak and tired. Too much drain. Too many activities at once. Thankfully, they are rechargeable! All they need is a boost. A shot of new energy. So you plug them in. Soon they are ready to go again. Funny how we think our own lives work on the same principle. Drain – Plug in – Go again! In fact, it’s quite the opposite. Drain – DISCONNECT – Go. You see, when you disconnect, you allow for your sense of orientation to shift from doing, to being; from outside engagement, to inner reflection. And it gives God a chance to be heard over the din of your life. Disconnecting lowers the sound of your life so you can suddenly hear the still small voice of the Holy Spirit. That above all else will give you the reorienting boost you need to go again. Hopefully the last couple of weeks has been a good chance to disconnect. Let that be a time to renew and reorient your life around the new energy that comes from God’s presence.

Journey

Billy Graham says,

“The Bible is the road map for life, and while your pastor can highlight the best route to take, you learn how to navigate life’s twists and turns for yourself."

Interesting... this was one of my things to keep myself accountable to this year...

Guess it's time to navigate my journey every day :)

God is the best route. He is the only way I will get through... Living each day for his wondrous glory :)

Greater things are yet to come

With God, anything is possible.

Without him, I'd be nowhere. I'd be nothing

But I have hope, passion, love... because

Greater things are yet to come.

prayer big prayers

do not settle for less than God's best...

pray big prayers. don't just pray to be healed, pray to make an impact through your healing.

pray to change the world.

With God's power anything is possible.

God wants to do amazing things. Don't limit God. He can do the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Ephesians 3:20-21

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, ²¹to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

ACtive Prayer

“Prayer is first of all listening to God. It’s openness. God is always speaking; he’s always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity. Convert your thoughts into prayer. As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer. The difference is not that prayer is thinking about other things, but that prayer is thinking in dialogue… a conversation with God.”

-Henri Nouwen

If we lived like this... how would it change every part of who we are? To make every thought intentional. To be open to listen to God, aware of his presence. We need to go to God with outstretched hands, hands that are open, not clenched tightly on our own ways but open so that we may be the hands and feet of Jesus.

Unceasing, never ending, intentional, and active.

“Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life”-Jonathan Edwards

Back at it...

Here I go.

The Home Stretch.

I know I can do it,

I am really looking forward to this end of this chapter, but it is going to be a long one.

One day at a time

Jeremy Camp

One day at a time I will walk this road I've traveled so far
One day at a time well I know I will carry on
One day at a time I can see you took my life this far
One day at a time I will take this faith along

All this hope I breathe is given by the hand that carries me
Until I'm complete and I'll take all I will
To understand this plan you have for me, for me

I've been shut up shut down held out held down
In ways I never knew I would
But I can feel your fullness in my life
Well I've been burned out broken torn out torn down
In ways I never knew I would
But I can feel your fullness in my life

one day at a time

One day at a time I will take these words you've given me
One day at a time I will rest in knowing you
One day at a time I will share this gift you've given me
One day at a time I will walk these valleys through

And all I know is that I see
How much my heart is longing to be cradled by your side
Yeah, I'll give all I can
To one day soon be held by your hand, by your hand

In all these things I will press on, yeah
I'll be with you I know it won't be long

a NEW year

2010...

Time for a new year... a beginning, an end...

the end of one thing, start of another...

5 more months. then do i stay? or go?

I really need to focus on God leading me,

that I may put away my own desires, be still, and hear God's voice

God, hear my cry.

Your child is here.

That I may know you and make you known.

2 Corinthians 3:16-18

But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

Here's to the new year... each day... each moment...

That I may grow closer to my Father

and experience His abundance.