Answers

If you think that when you pray and get an answer that is not what you expected, don't get all angry. It is a good thing. I recently just experienced this. When I say recently, I mean on Tuesday evening. Although the outcome is obviously not what I wanted to hear, I still took it and God is helping me through that. The situation was a little tricky and I had asked God for clarity and understanding. I had been praying that for a couple weeks and then as I was sitting down talking to Layla, I realized God had just spoken to me. He tends to use really close friends to prove his point to me. I just don't look close enough to realize it all the time.

I found this one especially hard, but one thing I know is that God has my life planned out and I don't need to worry about what's coming up next because God will equip me with the tools I need to deal with them.

Relationships

I am realizing that when I WANT something, God will take his precious time. Do you know how painful it is to wait?? The key word over the past few weeks has been WAIT. It has come up over and over and over again. At the Next> retreat I wrote a song called I Wait For You. I've been talking to some friends about "someone" and the connection between all of them is the word WAIT. AHHHHHH!!! The song that is linked to this entry is helping me to do just that. Wait. God makes that decision as to when he will bless with that relationship. If I follow hard after Him now, he bless in ways that I have never experienced before. Sometimes I've felt like I'm not being given anything by God because of the attitude I have towards certain things, but this is not true. He has been so faithful to me. He has revealed things to me that make me so excited I just want to fall to my knees in thanks!

On the topic of relationships, God is really challenging me there. I need to love him fully FIRST, before anyone else. Only then will place someone in my life.

Thanks for reading. Listen to the song linked. Click on the title Relationships to hear it. I hope you are encouraged by it as much as I am.

Following

Over the past few weeks there has been a lot in my life that I've had to do. Take my nephew to school, go to school, do A LOT of homework! I'm really enjoying it, but when you add in the little things like relationships and family and stuff. My emotions have been tugged around but all through that I've been told to "Follow my voice." Now who do you think has told me that? I've really appreciated hearing God's affirmation in my life. It's been wonderful!