Moving Foward

I heard a great sermon this past Sunday at our church called Moving foward. You can listen to it at gatewaypeople.com. I wanted to share some highlights with you.

To move foward you have to deal with your past! The longer we delay in dealing with these things, the longer it will take us to move foward with God. Take the regrets and mistakes you have made and use them for God's glory. You can redeem that mistake you made, you can make a ministry of those mistakes! Lay it down and when the devil comes back to taunt you with it, tell him to go take it up with God because that is what you have done!

To move foward you have to deal with unforgiveness and bitterness. Do an inventory of your thoughts and check to see if you are carrying unforgiveness and bitterness. Lay it down, your not going anywhere with Jesus until you do.

To move foward you have to confess secret sin. Sin we justify, sin noone knows about that we enjoy, maybe some small dishonesty, maybe it's unforgiveness. Be honest with God, tell him you are struggling with it, and when you are honest and sincere about it, the Holy Spirit will wean you off of that sin.

To move foward you have to stop your negative views of God. Maybe you have been burnt by another church or pastor. We need to seperate what people did and what God did.

To move foward you have to end dangerous realtionships. (not talking about marraige here) There are some dangerous people out there. The devil uses dangerous relationships to keep us from God. A dangerous relationship is one that does not help you get closer to God. Don't dump lost friends, witness to them, but then remove yourself from a close friendship with them. "Bad company corrupts good morals"

To move foward you have to reconcile broken relationships. "As far as its possible with you, live at peace with other's"

The things that will impact us the most this coming year are the things we have no idea are coming. This is why we have to become a people so broad and deep spirtiually, that by the grace of God we can handle whatever comes our way!!

Isn't that awesome! I pray that we all have an amazing 2009, that our best days are in front of us, and we experience God's blessings and favor in 2009. Happy New Year!

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Thanksgiving

I am thankful for my 4 sweet little miracles who are all gifts from God. I am thankful for my husband, he is so precious and I can't imagine my life without him. I am thankful for my family, each individual one means so much to me, I could never express to them how much. I am thankful that through Jared's career changes, we can now see that God's hand was on us and he was watching out for us and know that he still is. I am thankful for hardships, that it has made me stronger, given me more patience,endurance,and compassion for others. I am thankful for my home. I am thankful for my friends, for the new ones that I don't know how I had gone so long without and for the old ones who are faithful friends! I am thankful for health in our family. I am thankful for God's unconditional love. I am thankful for his grace and mercy are new every day. Happy Thanksgiving!

My bargain blog

I am starting a blog about the great finds I get, sales, deals and all that fun stuff! I know I don't keep up with this blog that much but I think I will do more here and alot over there! So you have to check it out when you get a chance!www.mybargainblog.blogspot.com, Vanessa is making me a header and I am trying to figure out what to "name" my blog, so if you have any idea's let me know!

Halloween

For Halloween we went to our friend's house, The Barrett's and had alot of fun! Gracie was Hannah Montanna, Kylie was a High School Musical Cheerleader, Joey was Batman, and Jack was a bat. (In case they weren't obvious!)

It's been awhile...

It's been awhile since I blogged! I have been busy and trying to adjust to be a working momma! I am working for my mom at Southlake Florist 3 days a week. She has gotten really busy and needed extra help and I have always loved her business and flowers, so it fell into place for me to work for her. I get to bring the boy's and they just ride along while I deliver or play while I do paperwork, take call's, etc...I am really liking it but it's an adjustment from not being home all the time. We are all doing great. Jared is doing good at Baker Hughes and has just started making commissions on top of his salary so that was an awesome, unexpected blessing. We both feel like this is where he is supposed to be for now and it is a great job, and we are excited to see what happens in the future, career wise, for Jared. I told you about me working, I am plenty busy with that and am also very involved at the girls school so that keeps me busy as well. The girls are both loving the 2nd grade and loving their teacher. They are getting straight A's and have all E's in conduct. I am so proud of them. Joey is as funny as ever and is really into race car's right now. His train obsession seems to be over for the moment and is now all about fast race cars. Jack has FINALLY started walking. He will be 21 months next week, so it took him awhile but he is a little toddler know and it's too cute! Everyone is trying to decide what to be for Halloween. We change our mind's very frequently around here so we tend to wait until the last minute to get costumes but I think we are going to find some this weekend. I will post picture's soon.