Song of the Month:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?Have Your Way - Britt Nicole
Hi Everyone! I wanted to share this story with you of something that happened to me this month and I pray it is a blessing to you in some way. Be assured that when you do what God says, He will bless you!
-Deborah
Right now there are so many thoughts running through my mind it is almost impossible to sort through them all. The mixture of emotions that are within me are very difficult to separate. I have happiness, but yet pain, joy, and yet fear. You are probably wondering what has caused all of this. Well, on July 5th while I was at work, someone came to my dad to ask if he could date me and get to know me better. It was so exciting, I was happy, and felt very flattered. But yet, I did not have peace about it. I would have loved to just jump up and down and say “Yes!”, but that is not what God had in mind. He showed my parents, and me, that the best thing to do was for us to remain friends at this time in our lives.
It says in Ecclesiastes 3:1 “To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under heaven.” God has a perfect timing for everything, and this just wasn’t the right timing for a relationship between us. This is not to say that it was an easy thing to do, it was really, really, hard. I know though that God will be pleased because we followed His guidance and listened to His voice.
Sometimes doing what God wants is very difficult. We have our own ideas of how we think things should go, and we have our own plans. Guess what? God has plans too! And you know what? His plans are so much better than ours. “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9”
I just want to encourage you that wherever you may be in your life to keep trusting God. He has a plan for your life that is so amazing and wonderful we cannot even begin to comprehend it.
Put your life in God’s hands, it’s the best place to be!
For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
The Lord will give grace and glory;
No good thing will He withhold
From those who walk uprightly.
Psalm 84:11
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Ephesians 3:20-21
For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear,
neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee,
what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Isaiah 64:4
But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 1 Corinthians 2:9
Praying For You,
Deborah Allyn
