Loving Well

It is hard to find the words sometimes to describe an impact that was made on my life just a few months ago at a ladies retreat at http://www.allasoranch.com/ in Hawkins, Texas. I learned a few things that I would like to share.

































The four kinds of people that we have or come across in our lifetime are:

1. Joy-- people who make it easy for us to love them and to be around them

2. Testy-- People who test our ability to love

3. Foe-- the person we almost hate, an enemy to our soul

4. Far-- the stranger

The four confessions of love that we learned about:

1. God is the only perfect love. 1john 4:18

2. Nothing can separate us from God's perfect love Romans 8:38-39

3. God poors his perfect love into our imperfect heart Romans 5:5

4. Accessed, I can love anyone through anything. Philippians 4:16

We can never love well until we love ourselves well. God measures maturity by how well we love. God will not give to us what won't pass through us. We will not love until we feel well loved. Perfect love is a mature love. Restoration is by the will of God. Reconciliation may not be. Some relationships should not be reconciled. Loving with God's love lets us love others with insight. Never love blindly. Always remember" WE LOVE BECAUSE HE LOVED US FIRST."


"So here is what i want you to do when you gather for worship, each of you be prepared with something that will be useful to all; sing a him, teach a lesson, tell a story, lead a prayer, provide an insight." 1 Corinthians14:





In GOD'S Hands

2010

I guess it would be safe to say i have missed the world of blogging and one of my new years resolutions is to find more time to write.

My walk with the lord has gotten even stronger this past year. I have joined the womens ministry team at our church and our calendar is full of things to do this year . Feel free to check our new websitehttp://www.tbclongview.org/ and also feel free to join us on facebook as wellhttp://www.facebook.com/inbox/?ref=mb#/group.php?gid=77224710834.

So check back soon as I will be writing away hopefully.

In God's Hands

PROJECT 365

Friday, January 8, 2010
Project 365 Week 1 of 2010

Hello all!! A big thank you to Sara at Make Music from Your Heart to the Lord for creating and hosting this wonderful blog meme.

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days 1-8 my precious, sweet baby cats that are saying mama is taking our picture.

random dozen

Wednesday, January 06, 2010
It's the Official First Random Dozen of 2010

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Wednesday, January 06, 2010
It's the Official First Random Dozen of 2010

Labels: Random Dozen




1. On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being a cranky-baby-hissy-fitter, how much of a complainer are you?

on a scale of 1-10 I would say about a 7 because I'm very picky when it comes to my food if it isn't the way i ordered it i will send it back and if yet it comes back again not right i will really throw a fit. (i know i am ashamed of myself)

2. When someone else is talking, do you listen, or are you thinking about what you're going to say in response?

I am great listener my friends will all agree with it as well. Then if my opinion is asked i will give it.


3. I just deleted 1062 messages from my email account. Do you have any plans for a clean sweep this month--of anything?

Most definitely i will clean sweep my cabinets "out with the old and in with the new" is my motto

4. Tell us about your perfume. Was it a gift? What does it remind you of? Do you have a signature scent?

I know this sounds cheesy but i love the new brittany spears perfume that is called curious and it just fits my personality to a tee so to speak lol.

5. What is your best organizing tip for the new year?

If you don't need it give it to someone who does

6. What is your favorite comic strip?

Garfield, HE is the cat that has the best life in the world. lol

7. Do you sleep with a fluffy or flat pillow?

Fluffy. Cold side only, please.

8. What color is your kitchen? Why did you choose that color?
I haven't painted our kitchen yet because I'm still waiting for that perfect color to pop at me so to speak. i love coffee and mocha as well as coffee cups.

9. What’s the most interesting bumper sticker you’v seen?
Hard to answer this I'm not really a bumper sticker reader. maybe made in usa?


10. Do you prefer an expensive writing tool or whatever is lying around? (Are you a Montblanc or a Papermate?)

Papermate. Just like this one and not because I'm cheap but because of the way it fits my hand and how smooth it is on the outside and how smoothly it writes.



11. What chore doesn’t feel like a chore – you just enjoy it (at least most of the time)?

cooking is definitely a chore i love so well

12. If your parents often repeated themselves, what is something one of them said more than once?

Don't go outside with a wet head you will catch a cold.
As a child my parents often found out things i had done during the day before i could get home. I always asked how did you know what i did? Response being "a little birdie told me." I hated that.

busy season

OK for those of you who follow my blog here is the latest update on me. I have recently joined our womens ministry team at church and have been so busy preparing for our annual event FESTIVAL OF TABLES. I will post some picture afterwards of all the beautiful tables our ladies are decorating. I am also looking forward to our guest speaker ANNIE MACRAE she is an awesome speaker as well as talented singer.

This is just a busy season for me and with 6 grandkids who keep my running its hard to find time to just sit down and write. I miss this dearly. It helps to keep me sane lol.

So for now i will close and will write more later when i can post the beautiful pictures.

new birthday

Sunday morning at church my spiritual warfare finally ended Satan could no longer stop me. i went forward during the invitation and gave my life to my savior Jesus Christ. I accepted him in my heart and was baptised Sunday night before everyone at the church. i feel so free now. I feel as if I'm a new person all the bad every sin i ever had has been washed away. My old self died and was buried and a came out of the water a brand new me. I cant wait to see what God has in store for me now. I know that its something very powerful and wonderful.

spiritual warfare

Until now i never really understood what spiritual warfare really meant nor did i understand it but now this is my theory.

I am at this point in my life that i want to rededicate my life to serving Jesus. I have not been living the way i should nor doing what i know in my heart is right. I have decided to make that change and live the way that God would want me to live and to follow his ways and his path as well. I want to be baptised so that i can wash away all the old wounds and scars and the old me and bring in the new me. Let me take a step backwards for just a minute and explain things a little. I was raised a Catholic so i have been baptised and confirmed and went to a catholic school, but for reason of my own i decided that being catholic wasn't for me, i will not go into details because i don't criticise any ones religious beliefs it just wasn't for me. I believe things differently now then i did back then. Some now would say I'm a southern baptist.
I have been attending church faithfully for about a year going to Sunday school and joined the church choir. I have learned many things by attending church and from close friends their at church and reading my bible that has made me question my salvation. I keep asking my self have i truly been saved? i know that i have said the prayer and excepted Christ into my heart as my savior but does that truly make me a saved christian? well i know that i am a christian by all means but i still have the longing for something. Theres just something missing out of my life something that is not yet been completed.

Our preacher at church every Sunday morning gives an invitation and some of the words he says feels as if he is talking directly to me even though his back is too me because being in the choir we sit behind him. I just know and feel as if he is talking to me. But these words play over and over in my head like a recording that just wont stop. " are there people out there that know in the heart of hearts that they haven't been living the God would want you too then I'm talking to you come right now to the altar and i will turn off my mic and meet you there." I so want to run down that isle and scream to the top of my lungs me! me! me! oh dear Jesus that is me and i want to serve you . I want to rededicate my life to serving you Jesus in every way possible. i Know that i haven't been doing right but i have changed all that and I'm doing the right thing and making it right by you. I want to be baptised and submerged under water and wash away all the old wounds and scars and bring in my new life with Jesus and walk his path. I want to share with everyone what i have learned about Jesus and what he can do for them. But as i sit there listening to him I feel as if someone has dropped a million tons of bricks in my lap holding me down and then i hear this voice telling me, not today lissa not ever those people will laugh at you and ridicule you. those people don't care about you they are not your friends. God doesn't want you. those people don't want you here at their church, and by the time the voices quit the invitation is over and yet once again I've missed my chance to do what i have been wanting to do for so long now.

I have learned just this morning from my sweet sister rachel this is the true meaning of spiritual warfare. I have two powers fighting each other for my soul. This makes me feel so honored and special because i know that God loves me enough to continue that battle with Satan. I know that God will win he has so much more strength than Satan could ever think about having. Yet i ask myself when will this spiritual tug of war end? I want those bricks to be lifted off my lap and run down that isle and say me me me i want to serve my Jesus now and forever.

This my dear friend is the spiritual warfare I'm encountering in my life as of right now. My true christian friends please pray for me that this battle will be over soon so that i too can start my new life with Jesus and start to serve him.

Philippians 4-9

rejoice in the lord, for he is near. Do NOT be anxious about anything but in everything, by prayer petition, with thanksgiving present you request to God and the peace of God which transcends all understanding, will guard your heart and mind in Christ Jesus.

Finlay brother whatever is true and knowledgeable, whatever is right and pure, what ever is lovely and admirable- anything that is excellent or praiseworthy- think about these things. Whatever you have learned and received from me or seen in me- put into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

sincerely yours
lissa