The Signs Of The Time

As I hear another helicopter go over my house, and just heard of the news about the Town Hall being flooded in the area in which I work and all their records destroyed because of the flooding that is taking place in my area. It is sad to see all the destrustion around me. Highways closed, businesses, houses, churches all under water and over 1,000,000 of people homeless. To me it is another sign that maybe the end times on coming closer.

In Matthew 24:6 it reads (NKJ) And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.

We live in very sad and trying times but those who know Jesus can keep looking up and watching for Him to return in the clouds to take us up with Him.

I Am A Little Like Jonah

In my morning devotions I am starting the book of Jonah. If you have been a Christian for very long you have probably heard of Jonah. God asked him to go to the city of Nineveh, tell the people of God. Jonah hated that city, the people, and they were his enemies. Why should he go there and preach to them. He knew God would save them and Jonah didn't want them saved. He wanted them to all be killed and wiped off the face of the earth. So he ran away in the opposite direction.

Well a storm game and he was cast overboard and a big fish swallowed him. It was in this fish that Jonah prayed. And the fish burped and Jonah was cast out and he went to Niveveh, preached to the people and they repented and God saved them all. Jonah fumed and was furious over the turn of events and he sulked.

God hasn't sent me out to a place like Niveveh and asked me to preached to the people. Although He does want me to tell people my story of salvation and what the Lord is doing in my life. But my problem is that sometimes, well I should say most of the time, I am running from God in just ordinary things.

For example, I am a diabetic and should test my blood surgar at least twice a day. Do I do that? No. If I not feeling well I do. I am to wear special shoes all the time and not go barefoot at all. Do I do this-no. My problem is rebellion like Jonah.

But the Lord is showing me I can not rebel against, I can not run away, and not pay the price of disobedience. I feel this morning like Jonah in the belly of the fish and I am praying really hard. I am asking my Father to forgive me and I want to repent and go and do as I am told.

So don't be a Jonah, but be a Christian who is truly one who wants to please the Lord, and I do and I am convicted of my sin and I am going to turn around my thinking and do what is right. I hope you do too repent and start going in the right direction. Sin always reaps bad things.

Rest In The Lord

This is one way of being a faithful disciple and that is to rest in the Lord. The verse for this thought is found in Psalm 37:7(a). There is a saying that I have heard often that we are a nation of wanting everything right now.

In the Lord's kingdom He sometimes has us to wait. And as the verse goes on He wants us to wait patiently. For some of us, at least for me having ADHD I tend to jump from one thing to another.

Yesterday when I was listening to God my Father He gave me a plan to help me to not be so impatient and to do one thing at a time which is what I need to do in order to finish it. I start a lot of things but just don't finish them.

I am so glad that this verse is in the Bible so when I read it I can be reminded to "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him."

Holiday

In the United States we are celebrating Labor Day. It is the last big holiday before school starts and all the summer parks are closed.

I was thinking about Jesus, His disciples, and I am sure that they did not have a special day they could stop all their work and just do nothing or just be with other friends and family. It is sorta sad.

But I am sure that Jesus and His disciples did have some good times. It says they went to a wedding. That is a special time. And when Jesus wanted some time to Himself, He went up to a mountain top to pray to His Father in the early morning hours. That is about the only time He had before people went searching for Him or His disciples woke up and they were on there way to face another day.

For all who had today off I hope that it was a good one. My husband and I had a quiet one but a good one.

Two Messages Of Same Kind In Two Days

Last evening I was going through my e-mail and came across a new blog site called, The Barefoot Executive by Carrie Wilkerson. She was talking on having a child with ADHD. She mentioned that those with ADHD have a lot of energy, ideas, and plans and start out really well but don't get many projects done.

It was discovered that I had ADHD when I was an adult so that explains a lot with what was and is going on in my life. So in Carrie's post she suggested three things that would help a person with ADHD and to help them manage their time.  So I wrote them done and will be trying them.

Today when I got to church and into my Sunday School room we are having a series by Andy Stanley. And guess what? You got it! He was talking about some of the same things listed in Carrie's post. Setting goals for our time and what we do with it.

Now when I get one message about a subject. I am ok with it, but when I receive two or three without a week let alone in less than 24 hours I am thinking that the Lord is trying to tell me something very important that is going to change my life. So I really listen then.

Has this ever happened to you?

Every Have A Bad Day?

Yesterday was one of those kind of days. It started out very well and my husband and I went out to lunch and then it happened...I went to work. I don't if it was because it was on a different day and hours then I normally work or it maybe I had a soda for lunch and my sugar level maybe went a little high. Not sure what really triggered it but I felt grouchy inside and just wanted to scream. I am usually a very quiet person and very happy. Along with being grouchy, my index cards fell off the shelf and went in all directions. I went out the side door to go into the hallway to get to the bathrooms there and went to come back in and was locked out so had to go down the hall and come in the front doors.

I was praying to the Lord to help me and for satan to move on and I finally got into a place where it wasn't so bad. I am sure glad I have the Lord in my life so when I have days like this I can go to Him.

How about you? Do you have days and times like this and do you have the Lord in your life? I hope you do.

We Will Have Afflections

Psalm 34:19

When I started this blog the main point I wanted to get across that as disciples or followers of Christ there would be and will be afflictions or trials and troubles in our life. It not a life of ease but if you had a quiet life before and may not be quiet again. I am not saying this to scare you and not want to life a Christian life but now you have an enemy where before you didn't.

The good thing about this is that the Lord will deliver you out of all of your trials. I must say here that some trials or in this case tests do come from God. He tests to see if you are really going to do as you say. I had one of those test last night. Sometimes He warns be ahead of time and I hear "This is a Test" and then I now that it is from God and am I going to make the right choice.

Trials come from Satan to see if He can get you away from God and turn back to him. Usually it is in the form of whatever you are weak in. It may be food, sex, your marriage, your family, your thoughts. These are the areas that Satan works on in my life. So you need to resist him and flee and run into the arms of Jesus in these cases. Prayer is another good way of getting ride of Satan.

I just wanted you to be aware, especially if you are a new Christian, that there will be some bends in the road and sometimes a very bumpy ride but always remember you have God on your side and He will deliver you out of all of the trials.