For I know the Plans I have for you!

Some of my random notes from She Speaks:

"God can do the UNLIKELY"
Dependant on who God is, if you have God- you have everything you need.
Ministry is what God chooses, NOT YOU
The Dream God put into your heart may be bigger than the environment you are in.
Pray for a team, give me people who GET my calling.
Don't sacrifice the future on the alter of the immediate.
SURRENDER!
Be a willing vessel.
with doubt prayers don't get answered.
God is Always on time!
Always answers prayer-don't ever doubt the power of a prayer!
Friends don't often understand your calling God has on your life.
Trust Him more than my feelings.

Some of my random notes from Beth Moore:

Faith will become Sight~His word promises it.

Be Still and wait patiently.

Believe His word(promises)

over your circumstances and your history.

If you want what is in the will of God for you~you CAN have it.

How much do you want it? Are you willing to do what it takes?

The battlefield is in the mind.

Put all you longings at the Feet of Jesus.

As I sat down this morning in Church services, getting ready to take my sermon notes, I took out my steno pad. Just as I was getting ready to turn to a clean page, I read this:

8-26-09 Wed. night

TRUST ME!
Even when it doesn't add up or make any sense,
what have you got to loose?

To Grow our Faith in HIS Faithfulness- to change your relationship with HIM.

You will not know the whole picture until you take that step of obedience.

He knows what is best for you.

To understand Why?
SUBMIT & APPLY

I have been for a while feeling that God is calling me into ministry (part or full time).

I work full time outside the home, Have a family of 6 to minister too, very involved with church and women's ministry and now my own Finding Freedom, and it is just too much.

Something is always neglected, usually my home and my family.

So I have been praying for a long while for God to make provisions for me to cut back or quit work. In recent months this has been a family prayer too. Ever since it became a family affair, God has really been speaking to me about Faith and Trust. WILL I TRUST AND OBEY HIM?

Just this week my husband got a job offer that would afford me to quit my job....... I know you are thinking wow that is great, God is so good.

But it is 585 miles away from here. But does that make God not so good now? Why would God do all that He has this year in my life and then pull me away to another state? Well I am totally unsure of that but He Knows the Plans He has for me, Jeremiah 29:11

I just forgot to pray for Him to keep me in East Texas to do HIS MINISTRY.

We are praying and seeking God on this live changing event, and would appreciate your prayers or encouragement as well.

Psssst, Guess what?

Well after many, many Prayers were lifted on my behalf I found out yesterday evening,

I Got the Job........

Thanks so much for all that prayed about this. Please join with me in giving Praise to

God for answered prayers.

This evening is our Homecoming. Pictures coming this weekend of the events.

We are a little behind in playing games because of 2 Hurricanes but our team is now 4 & 0,

and we are picked to win tonight......

On some polls in Texas we are picked to win the State Championship of our division.

Go Wildcats!

Still waiting

Still waiting on an answer of who got the job. And while I wait I have peace. I have been praying for a while about my job. I am totally unhappy in this department and have been for a long time. I have prayed for God to open doors here or make changes in my department. So when this opening came up I prayed about it and put in for it. Everyone seems to think that I have it over everyone that applied, but I just know that if I don't then it wasn't God's plan and he knows the desires of my heart. So with that I am expecting for Him to make changes and fill me with the happiness in my own department.
Last week after the interview was over, which went well by the way, the supervisor told me it would be the middle to the end of this week when she announced her decision.
Till then I am still praying........

Jeremiah 29:11-12

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

Just asking Prayer.

Please Pray for me today. I have an interview today at 4pm to change departments at my job. I have been really unhappy at what I do for a long time..... to sum it up I just don't like it. Never have since I went to school for it. I can't just quit cause we need my income so I applied for an opening in another department.... 5 of us applied and I have seniority over all of them. But 2 of them already working in that department but are part time.
I will let you all now what happens.
I want God's will in this and that is how I have been praying. He knows my desires and what I have been going through in my department as well.

Week gone in a flash.

Where on earth has this week gone? It has totally flown by. Alot of my time, and money was spent it various Dr./Dentist offices this week. I had an appt to get my leg checked out. I've been having something going on in my left calf muscle, feels like a pulled/strained muscle. I decided I was tired of it nagging me and went to the Dr. Wed. morning. After getting worked up by my sister about a possible Blood Clot I was for sure having this checked out. I did and they ordered a ultrasound that afternoon. Thankfully I don't have a clot, but my nagging problem is still present. There went another 6 hours of sick time.
Then I was previously scheduled to take of Thursday for 3 more appts. 9 am Dustin had a dentist appt. for cleaning and xrays. I am getting ready to put him into braces. Things never work out like I hope for. I was wanting to get dental work done and see the orthodontist for a consult by the end of the school year. That way we could do braces before starting school again. HECK NO! The little turkey needs to put more time and effort into brushing his teeth. He only has one cavity but has gingivitis disease. Also we found out that his wisdom's have to come out before he gets braces. Just Great! Then we had an 11am appt for a recheck on Lane's medication and also found out that his EEG was normal. The lady told while we were getting it done that it will only pick up seizure activity that was happening during the test. Well Hello I could tell ya that he was not having one then. The only time he even shows symptoms of one is when he is coming around after a Rage.
After that appt., we met my sister for lunch at the Olive Garden. The Best salads and bread sticks EVER! By this time Lane is starting to get uncontrollable from being tired and restless. Afterward we stopped by to get Dustin's hair cut. That child has got some nappy hair.
Then we headed to our last appt. At 2pm was a recheck for Dustin at the ENT. We need to have a procedure done on his nose so he can breathe better. That place was packed. I will try to never have to go there ever again Unless I get the first appt. for the day. There is no sense in over booking your patients or running that far behind. We were there for over 2 hours.
There goes another 8 hours of vacation time from work.
I have had so many full days off from being sick, a child sick and dr. appt days that I have used so much of my vacation/ sick time from work. At the rate I am going I will not have any paid time off by June. Thank God we do not have a vacation scheduled this year.

Taking a Sad Call

Well it is Saturday and I am at work today. This morning I took an unusual call from a man that needed help with getting a cat out of a tree at his house. It started a few days ago when his wife noticed a young cat in their tree. They tried for 2 days to get the cat out by putting out food. But when this didn't work she called a local vet. The vet told her that if the cat is young it might not know how to come down. And instead the cat had just went higher in the tree. Thursday this lady sent her husband to the store and while he was gone this lady got on her roof to retrieve the cat. When her husband returned from the store he found that she had fallen from the roof. Before the ambulance took her away the last words he has heard her say in days was for him to promise to get the cat out of the tree. She is still in ICU on a respirator. This poor man has been trying to find someone to help him get the cat from the tree that has now moved up about 50 foot. The local sheriff dept. and fire dept. just basically laughed at him. I unfortunately can't help him out. I am just an employee working trying to follow the rules and there was noway I could have sent a boomer truck out on the weekend without lights out calls. I did tell him that I would be praying for his wife. We have weird calls all the time but I have never gotten anything like this. I didn't really know what else I could do for him. It was really sad listening to him.
I wrote up a letter and faxed it to the news room at the local stations and tried to call the paper.

If you would please join in prayer with me her name is Charlene.