It's a New Year!!!

I am so happy to see 2011 go and 2012 come. 2011 was a year filled with trial after trial, but now that I’m on the other side of it, I’m so glad that the Lord allowed me to experience those trials. God taught me SO much during this past year and I am very grateful.  Below is a list of some of the things that God taught me in 2011:

• I should be a servant of God and not a servant of myself or others- “For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.” Galatians 1:10

• My security is not in jobs or money, but rather my Father in heaven who loves me enough to send His son to die for me so that I may have a personal relationship with Him. God has always provided for me in times and ways that make no sense. When Michael and I had no idea how we were going to eat much less pay our bills, God provided!

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!” Luke 12:22-24

• God has deepened and widened my love for my husband. When Michael lost his job, I began to notice that a lot of people watched to see how I would respond. I’m still not quite sure why, but I definitely noticed. It probably was because our family had become use to people leaving relationships when things became difficult or complicated. I’m NOT a perfect wife at all, but I understand that I am one with my husband and I am his helpmate. I pray everyday for God to strengthen our marriage, to grow Michael as a man of God and the leader of our home, and for me to be a loving, caring, prudent and submissive wife that God has formed me to be. 

“House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord” Proverbs 19:14

“Wives submit to your own husband, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.” Ephesians 5:22-24 

• I have questioned myself in asking, “Do I love God or do I love the blessings of God?” Tough question! In asking myself that question I have fallen more in love with my Creator, Savior, Father… GOD! The following passage, written by David, has become an ongoing prayer of mine to God.

“O Lord you have searched me and have known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it all together. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.” Psalm 139: 1-6