Simply Believing

Re-soul-utions for the Believer

2012-01-01T19:38:00.000-08:00

Re-soul-utions for the Believer (Hebrews 12:1-2)

Love One Another
Colossians 3:13

Actively Seek to Help Those in Need
Matthew 25:35-36

Improve Your Physical Well-Being
1 Corinthians 6:19-20

Love Others
Mark 12:37-40

Spend Time with God in Prayer and the Word
Colossians 3:16

Hide God's Word in Your Heart
Joshua 1:8

Share the Love of God with Others - Matthew 5:16

Have a Grateful Heart
1 Chronicles 16:34

Pursue Christ with Renewed Vigor
Psalm 51:12

Each year I want to deepen my relatonship with my jesus, please pray i find that time for him each day

Stampin' Sisters In Christ #23

2010-01-25T08:06:00.000-08:00

Our Stampin Sisters In Christ challenge this week is set by Peggysue and she chose this verse.

"For you have been born again, not of perishable seed,
but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God."
1 Peter 1:23 (NIV)

Her challenge is, since most seeds come up as tiny green shoots, use the color green somewhere in your creation, not all over green, just a touch somewhere.
I chose this image I had had since Christmas and have not used yet to work with. When I think of seeds I think of the beautiful things that come from them like flowers, and this allowed me to use just a "touch" of green.

God Is Faithful!

2010-01-23T09:47:00.000-08:00

Now it has been a over week since I last posted and I know many are you are wondering what is up because I was going to try and post more often here.
Well we had some chaos happen with my daughters graduation from Tech school. She was supposed to graduate the 19th of this month so we had planned to go down on the 15th so we could spend the holiday weekend with her and attend her graduation on Tuesday and head back home as she headed to Germany. The military moved her graduation up to Friday the 15th. We did not find this out until the night of the 13th so we had to hurry, pack up and leave. My hubby was out of town so we did not get there until 3:15am Friday morning and then had to get up at 6:00 to get ready to go to her graduation at 8:00.
She was scared that she was going to be shipped out to Germany as soon as she graduated that Friday night or Saturday morning. We immediately started praying and God was faithful and allowed us to spend the entire weekend together, She is now in Germany and I am back home so get ready for some posts. Thanks to those of you who knew my situation and said a prayer.

Stampin' Sisters In Christ #21

2010-01-10T14:31:00.000-08:00

Good Sunday Morning!
This is the day the Lord has made let us rejoice and be glad it it. This weeks Stampin' Sisters In Christ challenge is hosted by Pamela and she choose this beautiful verse of scripture.

"Come, let us return to the Lord.
He has torn us to pieces but he will heal us;
he has injured us but he will bind up our wounds."
Hosea 6:1

What a beautiful verse and wonderful promise! God is always close to the brokenhearted Psalm 34:18.
Pamela challenges us to make the broken look beautiful...create a Mosaic, tear apart and stitch back together, or use the cracked glass technique. In some way have your image look broken.
I love how beautiful the Cracked Glass technique turns out. It makes my image beautiful even though it is broken. The stamp set I used is a new release from Sweet 'n Sassy stamps March Daffodil.

Scripture Challenge 2010

2010-01-09T16:54:00.001-08:00

Patter Cross at Triple the Scraps is hosting another scripture challenge this year. She hosted one in 2008 and I wanted to participate and never did. Every other week she will give a Word on Sunday for us to search the scriptures on how it speaks to us and make a 6x6 page using 2 of them. I could only fit one on my page because of putting the definition of Hope. I have also journaled on the back several other verses reflecting Hope.

Week 1 is HOPE
this was taken from her blog
"As Christians, we have hope in Christ. We have hope in the resurrection. What are you hoping for? Are you hoping for a better 2010 than a 2009? Maybe you had some difficult trials last year? Maybe you even felt hopeless at times, or maybe even today you are weary and you feel like you have no where to turn. Well, I am here to tell you that just as God has provided for you in the past, He will do the same today and in the year to come. Look back at those trials. Can you see His provision and blessings? You can trust that He is able and He will provide. God is our hope for the future and in all situations. Are you looking to Him or focusing on the difficulty?"

For my 6x6 page I used the Blue hill papers from Crete paper and a Plain Jane stamp from Verve.

Stampin Sisters In Christ

2010-01-04T13:56:00.001-08:00

Good Afternoon and Happy New Year!

I thought I would start sharing my DT post here as well this year, for Stampin' Sisters In Christ in case any of my readers did not know there was a site just for christian stampers to make challenge cards.

Laurie is our hostess this week and her challenge this week is all about "new" and how cool is it that God guided Laurie to choose 2 Corinthians 5:17 for our challenge.
2 Corinthians 5:17
"Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!"

Isn't that encouraging to know that we are a new creation when we accept Christ that He throws our old habit and sins as far as the east is from the west. We do not have to change to become a christian but the moment we accept Christ we are changed we become a New creation. From that point on we are living for eternity.

The challenge is to make a baby or a new christian card or project. I choose to do a baby card since i have a friend who is going to have a granddaughter soon.
Our sponsor this week is Sew Many Cards and the DT was given some images to use. I used Jaden Baby Carriage for my shaped card.

Happy New Year!

2010-01-01T09:06:00.000-08:00

Good morning, as I logged in to this blog today, I immediately became convicted. If you were to look at it, it seems God has not been working in my life since last March.
God has blessed me tremendously this past year, I had the tumor removed from my back and it came back fine, no cancer. It has taken quite some time to recover and some days are still not good but I remain cancer free for another year! Praise God.
If you had read my blog you would have seen where my husbands job was in jeopardy with the economy. Even though he is now on the road instead of in house, God has provided him a job and has met our needs for 2009 and will continue to do so as He promises in Philippians 4:19.
I am not one for new years resolutions anymore due to the fact of always breaking them. This year I am going to pray about what I wish to do in the new year and journal how God has helped me meet that desire. I am not promising to make a daily entry here but it is my desire to post at least weekly how God has blessed my life.
here are some of my prayers for the New Year
My prayer is to become closer than I have ever been to God and so like Christ that when others see me they want the joy that I have and I can be a witness.
I have a little group that I send a verse to daily and I have been slacking in that too and I pray that I would be faithful in doing that. if satan cant have us he will sure make us busy. I admit I have been to busy to allow God to use me like He wants. My prayer is that I become in tune with his good and perfect will for my life. I want to see and love people as God does.

Father,
I thank you for all you have done in my life through 2009 and I look forward to what you are going to do in 2010. I pray that you would guide me to do Your will for my life and give me the desires of my heart. I love you so much and in the name if Jesus I ask these things
Amen

Walk In Faith

2009-03-14T11:58:00.000-07:00

This weekend we had a ladies ministry conference at church and the guest speaker was Lysa TerKeurst of Proverb 31 ministries. It was awesome. Lysa allows God to use her in so many ways and I praise God that He placed me at that conference for such a time as this.
I am scheduled to have a tumor removed from my back this coming Wednesday March 18th and I have in the back on my mind my own little world been struggling with this. I did not want to let everyone know how shallow my faith was about this surgery. But this weekend God confirmed that no matter what the outcome HE is still good! 2 Timothy 1:7 says

"For God hath not given us the spirit of fear;
but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."

I claim that verse today and no matter what the outcome may be I will serve and love God!

You're the God of this City

2009-02-22T14:42:00.000-08:00

This past weekend was Disciple Now weekend at church. It ended today and God did such a mighty work among not only students but adults also. The theme was ONE.

ONE with God, ONE with others and ONE with his Mission. Our speaker was Wade Morris and he allows God to speak powerfully through him. You can click his name to check out his website.
It all started Friday night and ended today with alot of lives changed. This morning during the service we Baptized 14 students praise the Lord! God was amazing this weekend but he is not done yet. Greater things are yet to come in this city!

Because of Jesus' Love

Rejoice In The Lord!

2009-02-07T08:14:00.000-08:00

Rejoice, you know sometimes it is so hard to rejoice in the Lord when things are not going like you would want them to, it's easy to rejoice when things are good. The bible tells us to always rejoice in the Lord. "Rejoice in the Lord ALWAYS, again I say Rejoice." Phil. 4:4 It doesn't say sometimes when things are going your way, it says ALWAYS! I was talking to a friend on the phone the other day and she reminded me of this. So this is the day I will Rejoice in the Lord, and I will be glad it it.
As most of you know I have a tumor on my spine and I had to go see a neurologist about it to see whether it was operable or not. Well I can REJOICE because it is, the surgery is scary because they will have to decompress my spine and fuse it back using a couple rods, screws, and some of my own bone from my hip (OUCH). But I can REJOICE because my God will be by my side directing my doctors hands. I am a part of the family of God and will have tons of brothers and sisters praying for me as well. So with that said am I concerned, well yes I am human but God has given me a peace concerning my doctor and is working on me to give me a complete peace about the entire surgery.

I have not posted here in a while and it hasn't been that God is not working in my life. It is because I am being the worrying human that I am and not rejoicing in the Lord! Continue to pray for me as I strive to Rejoice in the Lord ALWAYS!

Because of Jesus' Love,

Prayer request

2009-01-14T20:24:00.000-08:00

please pray for my Husband, he is in TX with his new job (same company) different location and something has came up that he needs prayer. The company he works for is transferring (he was going to be laid off) him to Marshall, TX to service a kitchen cabinet plant (he sells them material and makes sure everything runs properly) well this plant has decided not to use the company my husband works for as a supplier for materials anymore, therefore he will not be needed at this plant in TX. The guy who runs the plant has offered my husband a job to work for the plant itself, well it is a huge pay cut (I am not presently working because of health) and don't know about the insurance (you all know my situation and I have to have insurance). My Husband was going to call his new boss to see if he could come down to help talk this plant owner into using their materials, well the plant owners son who runs the show tells my husband not to call his boss because I want to offer you a job with us (it would be 1000 a month pay cut). as of yet my husbands company does not have any knowledge of this plants plan to find another supplier. My husband does not know what to do , if he says with his company now he will still probably be laid off. he just really needs to be lifted up so he can discern what God has for us. I know we will be taken care of because God promises that to his children but we need to know what God's plan is through all of this so Please pray that God reveal to us his plan and what to do. I know you all will pray and I thank you in advance for that.

The Gift

2009-01-03T16:26:00.000-08:00

Follow God's example in everything that you do, because you are his dear children. Live a life of filled with love for others, following the example of Christ, who loved you and gave himself as a sacrifice to take away your sins. And God was pleased, because that sacrifice was like sweet perfume to him. Ephesians 5:1-2

This is the verse God gave me in my quiet time today and reminded me of Christmas.
My Nephew and Niece did the coolest thing this year in lieu of giving gifts to everyone they gave the gift of shoes to the homeless and gave us a picture of the person they gave it to so we can put them on our fridge and pray for them. That is what Christmas is all about is "The Gift" not of material things but the sacrifice "The baby". So as we go about our everyday lives I pray we focus on "The Gift" and show the love of Christ to everyone we come in contact with.

Hold Me Jesus

2009-01-02T09:01:00.000-08:00

The song that plays first here is titled "Hold Me Jesus" and here are the lyrics

Well, sometimes my life Just don’t make sense at all
When the mountains look so big And my faith just seems so small
CHORUS
So hold me Jesus, ’cause I’m shaking like a leaf
You have been King of my glory Won’t you be my Prince of Peace

And I wake up in the night and feel the dark
It’s so hot inside my soul I swear there must be blisters on my heart
CHORUS

Surrender don’t come natural to me
I’d rather fight You for something I don’t really want
Than to take what You give that I need
And I’ve beat my head against so many walls
Now I’m falling down, I’m falling on my knees

And this Salvation Army band Is playing this hymn
And Your grace rings out so deep
It makes my resistance seem so thin
CHORUS

With what has been going on in my life lately this song has become one of my favorites, because the words have fit into how I felt. My faith was so small when I thought my husband was going to lose his job. I did not know how we were going to make it, what would happen concerning my health with no insurance. But Jesus held me and gave me HIS peace about it all and then HE took care of things just like HE always does. God promises in Philippians 4:19 that HE will meet our needs and that verse has been so evident in my life. SO I will claim that promise again as we move to a new season of our lives

Happy New Year!

2009-01-01T06:46:00.000-08:00

As the new year is here and I was reflecting back on 2008 and all I have been through the tumor I have on my spine, my husbands job being in jeopardy,the medical insurance, our finances, the economy, just all the uncertainties of this world. Then God reminded me of how certain I can be in HIM, my hope is in HIM. In my quite time this morning HE gave me a verse I will share with you.

Dear brothers and sisters whenever trouble comes your way, let it be an opportunity for joy. When your faith is tested your endurance has a chance to grow. James 1:2-3.

Joy in times of trouble? sometimes we say are you kidding me? You expect me to have Joy when I am going through all these trials? Well Jesus is our Joy, my salvation is my Joy so I do have joy when I am in the midst of a crisis. Our faith is tested and grows because of trials. God loves us and will take care of those whom love HIM.
We have been going through the uncertainty of my husband having a job because of layoffs and he carries the insurance on me and with my condition I have to have insurance. Well GOD being who He is answered our prayers and my husband is being transferred instead of being laid off!
What a Awesome God we serve! Praise be to God!
I appreciate those of you who have prayed for me, God is always faithful, we just have to remember its HIS timing not ours!