Revelations on cruise trip!

God did reveal quite a few things to me during my cruise: the first is while i was in lake city we stopped at cracker barrel and i looked on map quest to see how much longer and it said 3 hours and 33 min left!!! I about fell out of my chair!
Then I found this statue in the cozumel and it's a pic of Jesus and the lords supper encompassed in hands and they wanted 13 dollars and 33 cents! And then i saw it again somewhere else and i talked the guy down and he said "33 dollars" and i said i will take it! Haha. Then I bought a cross necklace and on the back it looks like a face in the wood!
Also I wanted to see how much ammolite jewlery is since i learned it has 4 colors of the rainbow in it ..i was talking to josh about it and i looked outside and there was a rainbow! and then we got home and there was another rainbow right over my house!
I got home and I saw an email from my best friend Tanya and she sent me a link to watch a secret staircase that was built at this church in santa fe, mexico..the nuns didn't have a staircase leading to choir loft whcn church was built and so they prayed and 9 days later a carpenter showed up and built it without even using a nail and the wood didn't even come from around there..and there were exactly 33 steps which is the age of Jesus when he died!..Amazing!!!!!!!!and the carpenter disappeared and didn't even get paid!

Another "healing" rainbow

My dad called me yesterday and said they found bacteria in his blood and he was having more blood work done. I then proceeded to call my brother and was getting anxious and worried but then as I was driving to work there appeared a rainbow in front of me..(see previous testimony about the rainbow). I instantly felt God's presence and knew all would be okay.
Mom told me today that Dad slept better last night than he ever has and feels better today! Another "healing"..!!! Praise God!!!!!!!!! I love the signs he gives us ..we just need to be open and aware to the signs! Thank you Lord for the rainbows you give as a sign of your wonderous healing and promises !!!!!!!!!!!!

Morning prayer time!

This morning I had a nightmare and woke up at 545am and couldn't go back to sleep. I began thinking negative thoughts such as what if this nightmare becomes a reality and some other things i have been struggling with lately. I then began to go to God in prayer and prayed for specific things (to guard my heart and not let negative thoughts creep in and keep me focused on him and his wonderful unconditional love for me and thanking him for the Rainbows that he gives during the "storms" of life). Well then during the mist of prayer, I looked on facebook, which I never do while i'm conversing with God but for some reason I felt let to do this..I looked and I'm friends with "Jesus Daily" (they usually put a verse or something to meditate on daily) and it said

FIVE THINGS GOD TAUGHT US WITH THE ARK:
1. Don't miss the boat.
2. We are all in the same boat,
3, Don't listen to critics; just get on with the job God orders.
4. Build your future on high ground.
5. No matter the storm when you are with God, a rainbow is waiting!
+++AMEN+++

Then I keep scrolling down on facebook and it said in "thoughts about God" the following:The world financial situation bounces like a rubber ball again. It’s fragile and unpredictable.

The morning news tells us the financial markets continue to tumble.
Financial leaders are meeting to try to figure out how to avert panic.
I clicked from the news to my devotional email and read the Bible verse Mike Woodward highlighted for today.

Proverbs 4:23
“Above all else guard your heart for it is the wellspring of life.”

Perfect verse to counter the unease of the morning news. I thought on it for a few moments ……
“above all else” . I sometimes ask the Lord for my “marching orders for the day” and here it was ….. my priority today was to keep a guard at my heart and to do that I needed to faithfully guard what I allowed to come into my thoughts and settle into my heart.
“it is the wellspring of life”. Humm…… what I allowed to settle into my heart would overflow into my day … into my relationships … my actions … my reactions.

Tall order when anxiety of any kind surfaces threatening to consume and devour us.
Just as I pondered the “how” of this wise verse another verse filtered through my thoughts and I quickly googled it to find the reference. Listen to the amazing flow of God’s wisdom to us…

Philippians 4:4-7

“Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again. Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving present your requests to God.
And the peace of God, which passes all understand, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

Wow! Here was the answer to the “how” of guarding my wellspring of life, my heart. God will actually send His peace to do it for me if I simply choose my responses today.

1. Choose to Rejoice in the Lord always. Focus on all the Lord is and offers to us through Himself. Take one point and make it the meditation of your day.

2. Choose to Remember He is near. When anxiety threatens ask God to remind you that He is right there and He will steady you and give you the wisdom you need.

3. Choose to Respond in prayer. Worry is a call to prayer. Choose to lay your request before God and ask for His guidance.

4. Choose to Retain thanksgiving. Leave your concern with the Lord and focus instead on who He is and His ability to hold you through any challenge. Maintain a grateful heart for even the smallest of His blessings. Watch for them.

Result: His peace, which is beyond understanding, will guard your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus.

Pretty amazing really when you pause to ponder it.

• All our spillover today in our actions, relationships, words, attitudes, will pour from what is in our hearts.

• We are told by God to guard our hearts.

• When we choose to focus on Him (Rejoice) / to Remember He is right there with us/to pray (Respond) even when we don’t feel like it/ and to Retain gratitude in our hearts …… then an amazing thing happens….

God’s peace itself guards our hearts AND our minds…. thorough Jesus Christ and we REST even in the midst of unsettling times!

Lord God,Please help me today to choose to guard my heart through these four steps and to experience Your amazing and un-explainable peace settling over my heart and mind by the power of Jesus. Thank you for Your wonderful provision when I turn my eyes to You. In the strong name of Jesus I pray, amen.

Then i Keep scrollling and in "Jesus Daily" they posted a pic of a rainbow!

LIKE if you glorify His Creativity forever! ♥

All things were made by Him. -John 1:3

WOW!!!!!!!!! He showed me 3 things that I was just praying/praising him for..these 3 things were posted on facebook for Today!! It's amazing amazing and amazing what God does! Praise him!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It gets better..during my prayer time this am I was talking to him and mentioned the verse "Ask and you shall recieve" well as I was reading my daily bible reading , I was reading in Luke 11:9-10 and it said "And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; Knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, it will be opened."
Wow Again!!!!!! God is amazing..I'm pretty overwhelmed by all the things he chooses to reveal! He loves everyone sooooo much!!!!!!!!! I do not take these things for granted and it's not by coincidence..I mean really..the very specific things I prayed about he turned around and revealed those specific things! It wasn't 1 thing, it was 3 things..He didn't have to do that, but he did..He's Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!! I pray for everyone 's eyes to be opened to the things he is wanting to show you and I pray everyone will spend more time with their Creator/Lord. He desires such intimacy and that is my hearts desire for everyone! Love you all and Love you JESUS!!!!!!!

Prayer ministry

The other day Suzanne called me from the church i attend and said my friend Jill referred me to her to possibly join the prayer team at our church..I was so excited since I am a firm believer in prayer and felt God moving me in this direction. I would be praying for the pastor before service and during service and after service to whomever needed prayer one sunday each month. So today was my first day and as I was praying this am and reading my daily bible reading he gave me psalm 34 which was about calling upon him and he will answer you and relieve you from your fears. I underlined this verse since it spoke volumes to me. I was then able to share this verse with someone who came in to recieve prayer..God's timing is always perfect. I feel so blessed to be apart of the prayer ministry..God gets all the glory!!!!!!!

Mayo..

As I'm preparing to leave for the mayo clinic today for my dad's surgery I checked my email and i had exactly 33 new emails today..I just smiled since I knew it was God reminding me he is with us and he is in control and not us!!! Thank you Lord! (33 is a holy number and 33 is the age Jesus was when he died). I feel everyone's prayers and I'm so thankful to have such wonderful friends/family supporting us. Love to you all!!!!!!!

The cloud..

The other day I was having a really bad day and as I was driving I saw this cloud up ahead..I didn't think anything of it at first but then I saw what looked like a Hand/fist and there was one finger (the pointer finger) pointing straight up to the sky! I went to take a pic of it but then it was gone! I felt that God was reminding me to keep focused on him and that these troubles here on earth are just momentary and sometimes we lose sight of that..we need to ask ourselves is this really important.?? Are we really going to add one more day to our life by worrying?? So thank you Lord for reminding me to keep my focus on you..
Also in church last night the Pastor mentioned "hand in the cloud"..from 2nd Kings...very intresting.

Wake up Again!

I have lately been feeling "disconnected" from God..I think I get too busy as we all do and lose sight of what's most important..I'm guilty of rushing through my devotional /daily bible reading since i have "things" to do..but really the most important part of the day is spending time with God. I have recently been missing his "revelations' that he likes to give me..Just when I prayed that he likes to show up and reveal himself again..thats the amzaing thing about God..ask and you shall recieve!!! Most of the time of course it's in his timing and not ours..Well this am i had my alarm set for 640am so I could get up and get lily ready for her last day of school and it's set to the "radio"..well when it went off this am the announcer said "Wake Up"..that's the only thing he said since I turned my alarm off immediately since it startled me..I was like "Wow..was that you God?"..read prev blog about "waking up"..since he has communicated this to me before..I was thinking the percent chance of that happening right when the alarm went off is like 1 chance in like a trillion. So I went on facebook this am and one of my friends husbands had posted a pic of a sunrise and didn't say anythinng but "wake up"...WOW!!!!!!!!! This CAN"T be a coincidence!!!!!!!!!!!
God is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just wish he could tell me clear as day what it is he wants me to know about "waking up"..is it to wake up before it's too late and go and proclaim his message as all of us Christians are called to do >...You all should read the book radical ..it will change your whole outlook on the importance of your calling as a Christian pertaining to missions! ..
Or is he telling me to wake up and be ready for the time is getting closer to the rapture..and no I do NOT believe that the end of the world is this weekend ..it says in the bible that not even the Son knows the day or the hour!
or is he telling me to wake up and spend time with him ..i mean to really spend time with him..to not just "read" the bible but to really study it and to spend more time in prayer..to pray for this country, for all the sick and injured and those that are suffering , for family, for friends, for the salvation of others..the list is long so you can just think of all the things to pray for and i'm sure your list is long as well..I struggle with remembering to pray for everything..but we also need to pray specifically..I feel so often we pray superficially and God sooo desires to really hear what's on our hearts..even though he already knows but this is part of being in "relationship"with him.
I was so thankful to hear that during this busy week , my freind Nikki invited me to go to her house this fri to spend time at the Feet of Jesus..to spend time in prayer..to stop what we are doing and just be with him...How I desparately need that..to stop me and keep me still and know that he is God. We all need to stop with the business of life and ask "what's really important?"..when we stand before God himself will he say "well done my good and faithful servant"..?
So My prayer is this..that we all WAKE UP and reassess our lives and make sure that we are including God and having relationship with him and making sure we are doing his will and part of his will for all Christians is going out and serving his people and proclaiming the good news!