This past week

This past week has been a very exciting and crazy week. I will try to recap a few things for your reading pleasure:)

First, Sunday morning at church, Pastor Dale mentioned that he had a vision at the previous night's service of someone with a scared heart. He said the scar could be very deep, bleeding a lot, or not healing. I was in shock. For those of you that know me, I have gone through some VERY tough times and his vision could not have been more dead on. I was glad I went to church! The message that morning was about overcoming life challenges. We are to manage life expectations. This can be hard for me, I have a plan on what I think should happen. But I have to realize that God has the best plan then I could ever dream of. We should expect the following: life to be challenging, painful, daily & mundane, problems to arise, Spiritual battles & attacks, people to be human, God to be available and Heaven glorious & perfect.

One comment that he mentioned is that even though you may be having tough times it does NOT mean that God is displeased with you.

We are to see challenges as opportunities for God to display His grace & power. Several great Bible verses for this thought (1John 5:4, Rev 3:12).

Life challenges will:
devour us
destroy us
develop us.

We need to draw on the right resources and trust in God's grace.

It was a great message and my blog is not doing it justice, but it gave me hope and encouragement and I hope it does the same for you!

Peace~