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I’m Overwhelmed…

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We all have these days…

You know them…

Days where it’s hard to move forward…

Hard to smile…

Hard to function…

Not because of the weather, or something that just happened, but because something is bothering you…

Something is causing you to be emotional…

Something that makes you want to quit…

To say, “I’m done.”

It makes you vulnerable and turns everything else into a big deal too…

Capable of snapping on someone…

You hold back…

Shut down…

Pull back the tears…

And run inside where no one but God can see you…

And while there…you say…

“God why?!”

Everyone around you thinks they know, but they have no clue…

If you are like me, you realize…

THIS IS OVERWHELMING!!!

STOP!!! STOP RIGHT THERE!!!

What is the problem?  Who is the problem?  Why is there a problem?  Why such great turmoil, pain, agony…Why?

We don’t wrestle against flesh and blood…No

We wrestle against the principalities in this life, against rulers, against the powers, against the world forces in this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places… That’s what Ephesians 6:12, 13 says.

They make themselves known and affect us by whispering things in our ears, throwing destructive darts at our minds, and aiming their blows at our hearts…

But we have a choice…

Say this with me…

OVERWHELMED!!! YES, I AM OVERWHELMED!!!!

I am overwhelmed with emotions, but I will decide why I am overwhelmed… and it is not because of what these forces have to dish out against me…

NO!!!

I am overwhelmed because I serve a great God that is more than able to take care of me and everything that attempts to overwhelm me.

I am overwhelmed because of His great salvation.  I am overwhelmed because of His love.  I am overwhelmed because of His heart for me.

I am overwhelmed because of His power and His might…

I am overwhelmed because in the midst of my emotions, He makes Himself known…through the trees, the wind…

Through the birds…

Through the color of everything around me…

He whispers in my heart…

FEAR NOT!!! I AM HERE AND I HAVE ALREADY OVERCOME THEM!!! HAVE COURAGE AND HOLD ON TO ME…I AM HERE AND I’VE GOT THIS…

You just don’t know how completely overwhelmed I am right now…

I can feel His love…can you?

In the mist of my brokenness…in the midst of my ache…I know He is all-powerful.

My husband said “Don’t let anyone mess up your day!  Have a good one…”

That was God, speaking through Him…

The “let” in his statement said “take authority…don’t let it have power over you…put on the armor of God and stand”

Today, I stand on my knees…worshiping HIM.

I will choose what overwhelms me.  It will not be the cares of this life, or the problems…or the people…It will be God! He will overwhelm me…

Have you ever felt overwhelmed?

How do you handle it?

Are you able to take control of your emotions and focus on Him?

Try it! Next time let Him overwhelm you…it may take a minute, but whisper “God help me to be overwhelmed by you.” and I promise you will experience a great and powerful overwhelming that you will yearn for again…

Watch these two videos…

You Can Live Your Life Without Fear

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There are many people that live their lives, daily, in fear.

They are afraid of what happened, what is happening now, and what will happen soon.

Although we all have had experiences with fear, at some point in our lives, being fearful has to end. This no way to live a healthy life.

Well, what is a gal to do?

I’ll tell you what I had to do.

I had to learn that I can’t control everything and I’m not expected to.

I had to learn that there is a GREAT BIG GOD out there that cares about me and my family. He is the only one capable of controlling everything.

This task wasn’t easy, I must admit. Yet with all that it took within me, I wanted God to be in control of my life so that the things He promised me would happen. As I gave Him more control, He took the reins, and gave me peace.

That’s right! He took my anxiety and fear and gave me peace.

Now I walk, talk, and think differently.

365 times, in the Bible, God tells us not to fear.

That’s one time per day of the year.

Should anyone doubt the message, they could read it for themselves.

I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears. ~Psalm 34:4

Did you get that?

The Psalmist says that He sought the Lord and the Lord heard him and delivered him from ALL of his fears.

I don’t know about you, but that encourages me. If God would do it for Him, why wouldn’t He do it for you or me? God isn’t a respecter of persons. He loves all of us the same.

Still one of the keys is that we have to be willing to call upon the Lord, give Him our fears, and take what He gives us in return. If we do this, our lives end up filled with peace.

I’ve made the step and I feel God’s peace resting on me daily.

Will you take this step?

Say that today will be the last day that you live in fear…

Be encouraged and trust God.

1, 2, 3 Go!

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It has been a while since you last heard from me.  My life has been busier that I had planned.  It isn’t the type of busy that cause me to want to go hide.  No, it the productive type of busy.  While, there are times where I am wondering if I bit off more that I could chew, I know deep down that I didn’t.

So what am I doing?  Well, from my previous posts you may have seen that my family and I moved clear across the country.  I had to unpack and get our family all settled in.  Now I am in school.  Yes, I decided to finish my degree.  It is pretty exciting.  I am a mom of three, a wife of one, and now a student….again.  It is very invigorating.  I am really enjoying my classes.  Although, I have tons of work, it is still very enjoyable.  I am currently taking a freelancing class which causes me to look closely at all that I do.  I really enjoy writing and I always have and this class is helping me to see the potential that I have.

There are all sorts of opportunities out there.  They pay pretty well also.  I will have to put in some work, but I’m putting it in now. Right?!

One of the recent, but familiar issues that I am facing is my inability to completely express my thoughts and feelings.  I am still dealing with fear of what my readers will think.  More than I am concerned about what my readers will think, I am concerned about what my family would think.  I’m not thinking anything crazy.  I just am dealing with some emotions and I would like to be able to express them, but I’m not sure I should.  This is a problem because I’m a writer.  As a writer, I want to express myself.  If I hold back, my writing is lacking something…me.  That may seem weird, but its true.  I normally submerge myself in my writing, but it’s hard to do so when I have things that I want to write about, but I don’t.  One of my major problems is that I want to write a book someday.  As you’ve probably guessed it, that’s not the problem.  The problem is that I am going to be able to write freely.

Like everything else, I think eventually I will be ok.  I am working at it in my classes and doing all that I need to do as a wife and mother.  I also started a workout plan.  I will definitely be able to write the way I desire.  I just have to work through some things.

I think I will give it a try…1, 2, 3 Go!

16 and Pregnant

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I was flipping through the channels when I saw down in the information bar “16 and pregnant.”  As I laid down the remote, I heard the sound of an angry teen mom.  She said that she couldn’t believe that Josh had thrown her out of the car.  The camera quickly showed a young man, Josh, and their two new-born babies in the car driving away from the new mom.  She stood on the side of the road with an incision from the c-section and called her mother.  Once the father finally returned to the scene, he attempted to stop the mother from getting into the car, by picking her up.  She screamed and hit him, reminding him that she had a “cut” and he was being too rough with her.  In frustration, she called the cops. Finally, her mother and the cops arrived.  She put her children in the car and they drove off.  The father was arrested and spent a night in jail.  The mother talked to her mother and expressed to her that their engagement was off and she didn’t want to have anything to do with him anymore.

This saddened me.  Here was a young girl who didn’t know the first thing about being a mom that was now making a choice to raise two children by herself.  I think she made this choice, not because she wanted to, but because she thought she had too.

I sat there on my couch and thought of the many mothers that are well past 16 and struggle to raise their children whether it be with a spouse or on their own.  I thought of the times that I sat up with a headache and cried as prayed and asked for the strength that I needed to get through to the next day.  I could not imagine being 16 and having to deal with all of this.  My children are 2, 4, and 8.  This young lady’s children were newborn twins.  I pray that the Lord gives her the strength to be a good mother to those children.  I pray that she makes good choices from here on out.  I’m sure that it won’t be easy, because it isn’t easy for any of us, but I hope that she soon finds out that with dedication, focus, and help from God…anything is possible.

I’m not sure how the many of other viewers who normally watch this show take the different scenarios that are presented, but I hope that the young people learn from the experiences of others.  One of the craziest things that anyone could ever do is choose to ignore the testimony and mistakes of others instead of learn from them.  I could have been that young girl.  You, reading this, probably could have been her too.

I thank God that I didn’t have to go through that and that my husband is in this relationship with me.  I thank God that he chooses to parent with me.  It is not easy…but this is our life.

To the reader:  if you are reading this, I ask you to look at your own life and count your blessings.  Cherish the moments that you have.  Learn from the experiences of others.  Last but not least…remember that all things are possible to those who believe.